God's Purpose Will Come To Pass

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We're here 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:01.120 at National's Park. Let me tell you, these are the 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.840 finest people in all of DC right here with me 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.040 in the stadium tonight, having a great time. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:07.880 America is not of hope. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.160 Thank you so much for tuning in, and thank you again. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:12.920 For coming out. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.120 I want to talk to you tonight about how God's 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.480 destiny for your life will come to pass. We don't 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.440 realize how much God is in control. Every aspect of 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.280 our life, down to the smallest details, has already been 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.840 planned out. God lined up the right people to come 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.400 across your path. He arranged the right breaks to be 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.079 in your future. He already has solutions to every problem 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.519 that you will ever face. God is in complete control 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.520 orchestrating it all. The scripture says, the Lord of host 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:50.519 has purposed. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.560 Who will annull it? This is saying God. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.639 Has a purpose for your life. He's already planned out 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.799 your days. Then it asked the question who will annull it? 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.840 God is saying, who can stop my plan? Who is 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.480 more powerful than me? I created the whole universe, I 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.480 flung these stars into space. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.960 Now. Who can make a mistake so big that. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.040 I can't forgive it? Who can have a problem so 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.080 large that I can't solve it? Who can have a 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.000 dream so great that I can't bring it to pass? Friends, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:33.040 God's plan cannot be stopped by a bad break, by sickness, by. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.280 Somebody walking out on you. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.280 All the forces of darkness cannot keep you from your destiny. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.200 But sometimes we think, because we have made mistakes and 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.040 we're not where we want to be in life, surely 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:46.840 we must have stopped God's plan. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.800 I say this respectfully. You're not that powerful. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.240 You may have made mistakes, but it wasn't a surprise 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.160 to God. He already has the mercy. Why don't you 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.120 shake off the guilt and move forward. Nothing that you've 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.440 done or haven't done, has canceled your destiny. Had a 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.080 lady write me a few years ago. She had been 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.160 in an automobile accident where she had broken her neck. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.680 For months after the surgery, her husband had stayed home 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.400 to help take care of her, and she felt badly 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.159 that he had missed so much work, and she finally 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.680 convinced him that she was okay to stay alone by herself. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.400 He reluctantly agreed to go back to work. One day, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:29.880 she was. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.040 So depressed and she was in so much pain that 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.440 she decided to end her life. There was a gun 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.880 rack over in the corner. Her husband was a big hunter. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.120 She couldn't walk over there by herself. She was going 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.640 to crawl, but when she got out of the chair, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.640 she lost her balance, knocked over the end table and 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.159 fell flat on her back. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:52.440 She couldn't move. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.680 The remote control for the television hit the floor and 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.599 the batteries came out. When it did, it change the 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.919 channel on the television, and it just so happened to 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.880 flip to a station where I was ministering. Her first 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.120 thought was, Oh great, I'm dying now. I've got to 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.640 listen to this TV preacher to add to my misery. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.720 That day, I was talking about how God can turn 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.679 any situation around, how he can take your darkest hour 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.080 and turn it into your brightest hour. She began to 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.760 feel a peace like she'd never felt before. She said, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.000 I couldn't move my body, I couldn't open my eyes, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.400 but I could feel tears of joy running down my cheeks. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.680 That moment was a turning point. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.720 Today, several years later, she's happy, healthy, halt on the. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.400 Way to fulfilling her destiny. What am I saying? You 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.279 are not powerful enough to stop God's plan. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.080 All of your days have already been recorded, They've been 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.960 numbered by the creator of the universe. If it's not 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.360 your time to go, you're not going to go. God 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.960 has the final say. There was an article in the newspaper. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.440 Last week, this police officer was attacked by men high 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.200 on drugs. This man stabbed the officer in the head. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:12.599 The three and a. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.560 Half inch knife blade went straight into his brain. He 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.760 was rushed to the hospital. His family was told that 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.039 he was most likely brain dead, and even if he 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.560 did live, he would never be able to walk or 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.960 to talk. The neurosurgeon had all the X rays done. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.159 When they came back, he was amazed. The knife blade 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.800 missed the part of the brain that controls motor skills 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.159 by less than a millimeter. It missed the part of 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.400 the brain that controls speech by less than a millimeter. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.719 It missed the main nerve that gives sensation by less 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:48.480 than a millimeter. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.200 It missed the main artery. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.000 That supplies blood to the brain by less than a millimeter. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.080 The surgeon said, it is unbelievable. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.880 The only way I can describe it is he was 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.120 less than a millimeter away. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.680 From death in every direction. A fraction this way he'd 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.359 be dead, a fraction this way, totally incapacitated. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.120 Friends, nothing can snatch you out of God's hand. An 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.600 accident cannot stop God's plan. A crazy person cannot stop 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:24.040 God's plan. God is in complete control of your life 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.720 right now. God is working behind the scenes, arranging things 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:29.520 in your favor. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.240 He's making a way where you don't see away. You 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.239 don't have to live. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.880 Worried, stressed out, trying to force everything to happen. All 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.520 you've got to do is keep God first place, honor 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.560 Him with your life, and you will come into these 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:51.120 destiny moments where you see God supernaturally protecting you. You know, 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.720 if it had not been for His angels, you wouldn't 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.800 be alive. Destiny moments where you're at the right place, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.960 you meet the right person that lead to a promotion 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.360 that wasn't a coincidence, that was the favor of God 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.720 moving you towards your divine destiny. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:09.880 Or maybe in your health. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.760 Like my mother, you were told that you're never going 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.560 to get better. One day you go back to the 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.520 doctor and they say, we don't understand it. It's starting 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.280 to turn around. That's not a lucky break. That's Almighty 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.679 God saying I've got a destiny for you to fulfill. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.120 My plan will come to pass. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.240 Now you may not see how this can happen, but 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.800 that's okay. God has a thousand ways to do it 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.559 that you've never thought of, Just like God can direct 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.040 that knife blade to be so precise that it's a 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.600 fraction away from everything that matters. God is directing your 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.679 steps down to the smallest details. He can make things 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.439 happen that you could never make happen on your own. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.000 He is for you, He is on your side, and 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.800 what He has purposed for your life will come to pass. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.199 My father was ordained as a Baptist minister, but back 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.280 in the nineteen fifties, he felt like what God had 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.760 put in in his heart was bigger than any one denomination. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.240 He took a step of faith and he left the 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.120 Baptist church where he was pastoring. He started his own 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.600 independent church, but he didn't have the courage to take 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:24.920 the name Baptist off. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.920 He called it Lakewood Baptist Church. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.439 Every time he thought about dropping the word Baptist, he 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.839 would get cold feet, and he wouldn't do it. That's 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.840 all he had ever known his whole life. The sign 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.679 in front of the church was made up of three 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:41.679 separate boards. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.720 Stacked on top of each other Lakewood. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.040 The top board separate, the middle board Baptist, and the 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.080 bottom board Church. One day, a big storm came through 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.199 and the wind blew the name Baptist off. My father 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.160 took that as a sign from God. From that day forward, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.160 we've been known as Lakewood Church. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:03.080 What am I saying? 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.600 Even when you don't have the courage to do what 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.760 you know you're supposed to do, God won't leave you 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.679 there and say too bad, you should have more faith. No, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.839 God will push you into your divine destiny. God knows 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.680 how to get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.559 I like what my friend Joyce Meyer says. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.840 She told someone I've been walking with God for twenty years. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.560 She heard the Holy Spirit say on the inside, excuse me, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.640 you've been walking with me for two years. I've been 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:38.200 dragging you the other eighteen. But God is so good, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.920 so loving, so forgiving. Even if he has to drag us, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.079 He'll still get us to our destiny. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.480 We don't have to live down on ourselves because we 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:49.840 don't think we have enough faith. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.040 We don't have to go around stressed out because it's 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.840 not happening on our timetable. We can stay in peace 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.679 knowing that our God, the creator of the universe, is 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.120 in complete control. God knew when we wouldn't have the faith. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.640 He knew when we'd need a push, Just like with 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.840 my father, He's already got your destiny moments lined up 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.720 where you will see his hand of favor, you'll connect 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.880 to the right person. A problem you've had for years 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.400 suddenly turns around, an opportunity of a lifetime suddenly is 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.000 in front of you. Those are destiny moments that God 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.920 already has in your future. I read about a young 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.400 lady that was going to meet her fiance's parents for 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:35.160 the first time. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.800 They were known to be very picky and. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.760 Not easily impressed, and she was kind of nervous about it. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.800 As she was leaving the house, she knocked over a 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.920 coca cola and it's spilled on the floor, and it 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.000 splashed up on her shoes, on her pant legs, and 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.600 she was standing in the middle of it. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.720 She got some napkins and cleaned it up. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.480 She went on her way, and as she got to 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.240 her fiance's parents' home, she met them and they. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.680 Were very nice. The whole time. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.560 Their little dog that they'd had for many years was 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.480 at this young lady's feet, following her all through the house, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.760 would not leave her side. When she stopped, the little 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.800 dog stopped where she sat. The dog sat right at 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.440 her feet for two hours. This dog was her best friend. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.480 As she was leaving, the mother said, We've had a 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.400 lot of guests in our home, but our little dog 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.880 has never taken to anyone like she's taken to you. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.480 She usually barks and is at a distance. But there 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.760 must be something really special about you. What she didn't 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.240 realize is that little dog like the smell of coca 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:46.040 cola on her shoes. Friends, God works in mysterious ways. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.160 He knows how to get people to like you. He 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.000 knows what it's going to take to push them over 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.120 to your side. Why don't you trust him? Why don't 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.160 you believe that in your future are these destiny moments. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.080 You may not be able to make it happen, but 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.920 God knows how to make it happen. If God has 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.959 to use coca cola to have a dog follow you around, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.360 he will. If God has to use the wind to 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.720 blow the name off of your sign to get you 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.240 into the fullness of his destiny, he will. If God 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.120 has to cause the remote control to get stuck on 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.480 just the right station. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.400 He will. He's God, He's in complete control. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.520 But sometimes we get all worked up trying to make 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:34.320 things happen. We're discouraged because somebody won't be our friend, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.360 and we're working over time trying to. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.760 Convince them to like us. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.079 Now, if somebody doesn't like you, don't take it personally. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.320 Doesn't mean that they're a bad person. They're just not 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.200 a part of your destiny. If you'll keep moving forward, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.480 you will come into the people God has ordained for you. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.600 God has divine connections in your future. People that will 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.800 celebrate you, people that will want to be your friend, 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.840 people that will even go out of their way to 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.720 be good to you. There was a lady driving to 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.520 work one morning. She got pulled over by a police 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.480 officer for not coming to a complete stop at the 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.920 stop sign. The officer asked if there was any reason 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.600 she was in such a hurry. She said, no, officer, 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.840 I'm just going to work. I teach third grade at 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.080 the elementary school around the corner. He wrote her a ticket. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.239 She drove off so disappointed she was mad at herself. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.680 She didn't have the extra money now. It was going 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.880 to make her budget tight. But a couple of minutes later, 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.720 she got pulled over again by the same officer. He 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.160 came up to the window and said, give me the 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.960 ticket back. He took it and tore it into pieces. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.600 He said, when I was in third grade, I was 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.760 mean to my teacher. I want to be nice to 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.120 you to try to make up for it. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:54.520 God has it. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:59.200 All lined up, big ways, sparing your life from that 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.080 knife blade, small ways, causing you to find a police 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.359 officer that's remorseful. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:05.840 God's in complete control. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.640 I want you to have this confidence that you're not 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.040 just randomly going through life hoping everything works out. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:14.560 No. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.120 God is strategically orchestrating your steps. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.360 You are not here by accident. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.160 You didn't just happen to show up in the year 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.960 twenty twelve. God hand picked you. You've been chosen by 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.560 the creator of the universe. God not only ordained for 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.800 you to be here, but He has a specific plan 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.880 for your life, something for you to accomplish. You haven't 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.960 made too many mistakes, you haven't missed too many opportunities. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.160 If you will keep moving forward, you will come into 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.960 your destiny moments where you see God's hand to favor. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.480 That's him bringing about his purpose in your life. If 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.560 you're going to live in victory, you've got to get 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.480 this down on the inside. Really, all through the day, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.960 in the back of our mind, this should be playing. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.440 I'm a person of destiny. God breathed his life into me. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.160 His favor surrounds me like a shield. No weapon formed 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.480 against me will prosper. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.040 What God started in my life, he will finish. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.360 I will become everything He's created me to be. I 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.360 met a young man a few years back. He came 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.440 from a very dysfunctional family, and he was extremely troubled 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:27.680 by it. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.320 All they were into drugs. All he had seen growing 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.720 up was anger and. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.160 People stabbing each other in the back and addictions. His 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.560 parents never encouraged him. They did just the opposite. They 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.640 were always belittling him, telling him how he was never 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.080 going to amount to anything. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.280 He made an interesting. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.680 Statement, He said, Joel, it doesn't seem fair that I 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.440 was born into this family. It's almost like they have 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.400 cursed my future. Now, how you were raised doesn't have 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.400 to stop your destiny. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:01.480 People may have. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.800 Done you wrong, you may have heard things growing up 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.280 that you should have never heard. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.200 But know this, Before anyone could put a curse on you, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.080 God put a blessing on you. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.280 The good news is the blessing always overrides the curse. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.560 It doesn't matter what people have said about you. It 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.960 matters what God said about you. When God created you, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.840 he stepped back and said that was good, another masterpiece. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.200 Take this in the right way. You didn't come from 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.200 your parents. You came through your parents. You came from 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.600 Almighty God. He is the giver of all life. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.760 Just because you were. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.000 Raised in a negative environment, or maybe you're around people 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.400 now that are just stuck in mediocrity, you don't have. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.120 To stay there. That is not who you are. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.320 Shake off every negative comment people have spoken over you 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.000 and reprogram your thinking. I am not who people say 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.040 I am. I am who God says I am. I 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.959 am valuable, I am talented, I am a masterpiece. I 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.919 am blessed, and I cannot be cursed. One time in 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.439 the Old Testament, the king of Moab sent word to 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.399 Balem to come to their city so. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.320 He would curse the people of Israel. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.920 They said, Balem, we know what you ask God to do, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.640 he will do, and if you will come curse these 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.760 people for us, we'll pay you a lot of money. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.440 Baalim said, will stay overnight and let me pray about it. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.240 But I will only say what the Lord instructs me 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.359 to say. Balem prayed about it, and the Lord said, Balim, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.480 there's no use you going with them. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.679 What I have blessed, no man can curse. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.040 Notice when God puts the blessing on you, doesn't matter 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.120 what people say, doesn't matter how somebody treats you. All 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:59.119 that matters is Almighty God has blessed you, and everything. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.000 Else as of no effect. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.560 They begged him and begged him to come, and Baalim 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.320 finally went. He told the king, here's what the Lord says. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.359 They will succeed and become a great nation and have 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.440 descendants too numerous to count. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:15.680 The king said, Balim, what are you doing. 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.720 I brought you here to curse them, but instead you're 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.400 blessing them. He said it again, I cannot curse what 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:24.800 God is already blessed. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.000 Get that down in your spirit. When God created you, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.119 he breathed his blessing into you. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.560 You have the dna of Almighty God. Royal blood is 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.040 flowing through your veins. You are wearing God's crown of 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.840 favor like this king. And people try to do you wrong, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.320 or maybe you go through some disappointments. It's easy to 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.400 let that cloud your future. Have a new perspective. What 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:52.480 God is blessed. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:54.080 No person can curse. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.119 Maybe somebody's talking about you, your attitude should be no 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.240 big deal. They are powerless to stop the blessing on 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.600 my life. Well, you got some bad breaks, you got 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.680 laid off. Yes, that's true, but I'm not worried about it. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.439 I know the blessing always overrides the curse. Well, you 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.040 came from a rough family, you had a rough background. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:14.760 That's all right. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.679 Where I am is not where I'm staying. I know 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.159 the blessing of God will get me to where I'm 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:24.840 supposed to be. Here's what I've learned. The enemy doesn't 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.879 fight you for where you are. He fights you for 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.480 where you're going. Sometimes, like this young man, we think, 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:33.840 why am I facing this opposition? 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.359 Why was I born into this family? It's because of 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:38.400 what's in your future. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.119 When I first started ministering twelve years ago, I was 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.960 not only dealing with the loss of my father, but I. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:46.960 Was learning how to minister. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.159 I had never done this before, and at one point 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.240 it seemed like everything was coming against me. People were 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.719 talking and I didn't know if I could do this 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.720 and I thought, why do I feel this resistance? 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:01.680 Why is this such a struggle. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.760 Later I realized the enemy wasn't fighting me for where 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.480 I was. He was fighting me for where I was going. 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.480 He didn't want me to be standing with you here tonight. 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.480 He didn't want the Compact Center to become Lakewood Church. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.320 He didn't want our message of hope and faith and 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.280 victory to go around the world. 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.320 You may be facing difficulty. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.040 And you think, well, Joe, if I want to fulfill 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.280 my destiny, why are these circumstances, why are these people 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:29.119 coming against me? 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:30.040 Here's why. 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.120 It's because God has something amazing in your future. There 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.720 are new levels of your destiny. You have not touched 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.840 the surface of what God has in store. You are 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:46.400 going to see Ephesians three twenty exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:48.720 Now get your passion back. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.879 No obstacles too much for you, No difficulty is too great. 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.800 You and God are a majority. If God be for you, 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:01.040 who dare be against you? Think about with Moses. His 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:04.560 destiny was to deliver the people of Israel from slavery. 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.480 God had something big in his future. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:11.119 Yet when he was born, the king ordered all the 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.560 male babies two years old and under to be killed. 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.399 It looked like God made a mistake, looked like it 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.200 wasn't going to happen. No, God was still in control. 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.199 God had it all figured out. Moses's mother put him 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.080 in a little basket and sent him down the Nile River. 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:32.000 It just so happened. Pharaoh's daughter went out to take 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.080 a bath. She heard the cries coming from the basket. 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:40.080 A destiny moment. God positioned Pharaoh's daughter to be at 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.320 the right place, at the right time ten minutes later, 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.040 and Moses would have floated on by. 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:46.520 See. 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.320 God's plan for your life is down to the very second. 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:52.879 God is not a vague God. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:57.640 He's a precise God, a detailed God, an exact God. 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:03.000 Every step of your life has been strategically orchestrated. God 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:06.720 has already taken into account every attack that will come 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:11.119 against you. He already knows every setback. The good news 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:16.480 is He's already planned your comebacks. Fro's daughter took Moses in. 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:20.679 She said, I need somebody to nurse the baby. An 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.320 assistant said, I know just who to get. She went 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:27.200 and got Moses' mother. His life was not only spared, 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.080 but Moses grew up in the palace with his own mother. 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.000 He went on to fulfill his destiny. 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.760 What God has purposed for your life will come to pass. 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.480 I met a young lady that grew up in Rwanda. 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.480 She and her family are strong believers. At twenty two 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.760 years old, she came home from college for Easter break. 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.840 There were two main tribes in Rwanda, and they had 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:55.760 gotten along peacefully for many many years. They considered themselves 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.600 all Rwanda's But one day the president of the nation 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:04.919 was killed. These rebels, all from one tribe, started killing 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:09.159 people from the opposing tribe, a genocide. They went on 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:15.480 a rampage, going from town to town, ruthlessly slaughtering men, women, children, 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:19.479 anyone from the opposing tribe. Some of the people that 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.520 were doing the killing she had grown up with, she 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:25.119 had played with, even had them in her home. 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:26.440 It was unthinkable. 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:30.560 Her parents snuck her to a pastor's home from the 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:31.800 opposing tribe. 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.280 She and six other girls. 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:38.160 Hid in this small bathroom week after week, never making 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:42.679 a sound, never talking, never coughing, never whispering. The bathroom 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:46.040 was three feet by four feet with a toilet in 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:46.520 the center. 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.120 Seven people in there again and again. 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:53.440 The rebels would knock on the pastor's home, calling her 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:57.320 by name, specifically asking for her. The pastor would say, no, 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:00.520 she's not in here. One time they came and searched 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.840 the house. They had their hand on the doorknob of 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:07.000 the bathroom where they were hiding, but just before they 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:11.280 turned it, they got distracted and walked away. For ninety 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.639 one days, she stayed in this bathroom, never left. Once 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:18.199 she went in weighing one hundred and twenty pounds, she 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:22.720 came out weighing seventy pounds. During those three months, her parents, 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:27.399 her relatives, and nearly one million Rwandans were killed in 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:28.879 this senseless genocide. 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:31.280 Very sad, but here's my point tonight. 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.040 If it's not your time to go, all the forces 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:38.520 of darkness cannot stop you. What God has purposed for 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:41.760 your life will come to pass. God is bigger than 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:46.720 any enemy, bigger than any injustice, bigger than any sickness. 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:50.440 The scripture says, when the enemy comes in like a flood, 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:53.080 the spirit of God will raise up a barrier. 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:55.439 God knows how to protect you. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.280 Just as God can make blind eyes see, God can 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:00.640 make sea and i blind. 0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:03.200 God can shield you from the enemy. 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:07.200 Now Quit worrying about your future, Quit trying to figure 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:07.800 it all out. 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.640 God has you in the palm of his hand. Come 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:12.960 back to that place of peace. 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:16.439 There is a hedge of protection around you that the 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:17.960 enemy cannot cross. 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:19.680 What is meant for your harm? 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:23.359 God said he would use to your advantage Today. This 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:27.200 beautiful young lady works for the United Nations. She goes 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:31.040 around the world telling her story, letting people know that 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:34.480 when you believe, all things are possible. When you don't 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:37.080 see a way, God can make a way. When it 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:41.240 looks like it's over, God has the final say. God 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:45.600 said in Hebrews, I will not, I will not. I 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:50.480 will not fail you in any way. Three times God 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:54.280 said the same thing. He knew we would all face 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:59.040 situations that look impossible. Times when the medical report says 0:26:59.160 --> 0:27:03.000 no way, the financial situation says you're never going. 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.440 To make it in the natural, you could never. 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:09.440 Accomplish your own dreams. Let this sink down into your spirit. 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:14.440 God is saying, I will not fail you. I will 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:17.960 not let you go under. My purpose for your life 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.040 will come to pass. I will connect you to the 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:25.080 right people. I will take care of your children. I 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:29.200 will turn the financial situation around. I will give you 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:33.040 another chance. I love you too much to let you 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:37.160 miss your destiny. My challenge is stir your faith up. 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:40.560 Shake off every disappointment, shake. 0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:43.760 Off every negative comment people made, shake off the self pity, 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.639 and put on a new attitude. Get up every morning 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.040 and say, Father, thank you that your destiny will come 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:52.440 to pass. Thank you that I will leave my mark 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:56.880 on this generation. Always remember this. Before anyone could put 0:27:56.920 --> 0:28:00.000 a curse on you, God put a blessing on you. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:03.280 If you will have this attitude of faith, honor God 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.680 with your life, You're gonna come in to your destiny moments. 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.879 That favor is gonna thrust you to new levels. 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