Keep Your Crown

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But thanks so much for tuning in, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.600 and thank you again for coming out Todayan I like 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.480 to start with something funny, and I heard about this pastor. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.239 He parked in a no parking zone downtown in a 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.119 large city. He left a note on the windshield, said, officer, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.800 I've circled this block ten times. If I don't park here, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.080 I'll miss my appointment. In big letters, he wrote, forgive 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.440 us our trespasses. He returned to his car and had 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.760 a ticket. The officer had written him a note. It said, sir, 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:37.760 I've circled this block. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.360 For ten years. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.800 If I don't give you a ticket, I could lose 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.960 my job. In big letters, he wrote, lead us not 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.440 into temptation. Hold up your Bible. Say it like you 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.200 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.440 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.520 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.200 I will be talked the word of God. I boldly 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.120 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.000 will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.760 I want to talk to you today about keep your crown. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.799 When God brethed his life into you. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.840 He put a crown on your head. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.520 The psalm is called it a crown of glory and honor. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.040 This crown represents your authority, it represents God's blessing and 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.000 favor on your life. It's a reminder that you're not average, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:30.080 not mediocre. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.320 To you a royalty. When you're wearing. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.400 Your crown, you'll feel a sense of entitlement, thinking, I 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:38.840 have a right to be blessed. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.040 I have a right to live in victory. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.560 I have a right to overcome these challenges, not because 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.000 I'm so great, so strong, so talented, but because I'm 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.240 wearing a crown of honor put there by my creator. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.119 Your perception of yourself will determine what kind of life 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.200 you live. If you see yourself as being adage, you 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.320 feel less than because of what somebody said, You live 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.200 guilty because of past mistakes. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.440 That's going to limit your potential. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.280 What's happening you're not wearing your crown, Jesus said in 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.680 Revelation three. Hold fast to what you have so that 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.520 no one can take your crown. Throughout life, there will 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.200 always be someone or something trying to take your crown. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.760 People talking about you trying to make you look bad, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.839 push you down. What they're really doing is trying to 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.440 get your crown. Do yourself a favor, don't let them 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.920 have it. Eleanor Roosevelt said, no one can make you 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.520 feel inferior without your permission. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.240 Nobody can take your crown. You have to let go 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:47.640 of it. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.919 And somebody may say to you, well, you're not that talented. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.520 You'll never be successful, you can't start your own business. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.960 Too often we think, yeah, you're right, I don't really 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.839 have what it takes. Look how long it's been. I'm 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.040 not as smart as my cousin. What's happening. You're letting 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.200 go of your crown. When those thoughts tell you you're 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.320 not attractive enough, just say no thanks, you're not taking 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.679 my crown. I know I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.560 I know I am one of a kind. Well, you'll 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.520 never get out of debt, you'll never send your children 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:20.880 to college, No thanks. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.000 I will lend and not borrow. Whatever I touch will 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.160 prosper and succeed. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.680 You're not just being positive, You're holding on to your crown. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.760 Thoughts say, well, look at where you are in life. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.279 You should be ashamed of yourself, the mistakes you've made, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.040 the times you failed, or you're not having my crown. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.680 I may have fallen, but look at me now. I 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:42.480 didn't stay down. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.559 I got back up again. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.240 I made mistakes that didn't change my name. I'm still 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.440 a child of the Most High God. If you're going 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.279 to keep your crown, you have to dig your heels 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.640 in and say, I'm not going to let what somebody said, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:01.000 or who walked away, or what didn't work out steal 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.359 my sense of value. I know I have been crowned 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.679 with honor, and when somebody tries to make you feel 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.520 small they say something derogatory. Instead of being upset and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.320 believe in it, just reach up and straighten your crown. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.160 They can't change who you are unless you allow them to. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.599 They don't control your destiny. They don't determine your value. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.400 They didn't breathe life into you. God did, and he 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.679 calls you a masterpiece. He says you're a king, a queen. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.640 You're supposed to reign in life. That's why he put 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.960 the crown of honor on your head. It's to remind 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.000 you who you are. But the mistake we make too 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.440 many times is we believe the lies. Somebody says you're 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.920 not that talented. Instead of saying no thanks, we say, oh, yeah, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.400 you're right, Let me take off my crown. I thought 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.200 I was you're not royalty, you come from the wrong family, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.360 You'll never do anything great. Instead of ignoring, not giving 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.680 it the time of day, we think, yeah, you're right. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.080 What was I thinking? Let me take off my crown. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:12.280 The enemy's main tool is deception. There's nothing he would 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.280 love anymore than for you to go through life not 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:20.440 wearing your crown, letting people and circumstances convince you that 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.240 you don't deserve to be blessed. You don't have what 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.920 it takes. You've been through too much. You can't feel 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.680 good about yourself. Don't you dare give away your crown. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.160 It belongs to you, It was put there by your creator. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.600 It has nothing to do with how you feel, how 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.160 you look, what other people said. It's based solely on 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.240 the fact that you are a child of Almighty God. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.680 He has crowned you with glory and honor. I know 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.320 a young man that loved to play baseball. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.080 That was his passion growing up. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.040 But when he tried out for the school team, the 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.040 coach didn't give him a chance. He said, I'm sorry, son, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.520 you can't try. You're too small. You would never make 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.840 this team. And the coach wasn't trying to be rude, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.640 he was just looking at it in the natural. But 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.200 just because somebody doesn't believe in you, that doesn't mean 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.200 that has to stop your dream. The reason people don't 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.280 always encourage you and cheer you on is because they 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.960 can't feel what you feel. God didn't put the dream 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.240 in them. He put the dream in you. Don't let 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.040 their discouragement. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.480 Steal your enthusiasm. They may be the experts, but the 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.720 experts can be wrong. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.760 Keep your crown on, keep believing, keep hoping, keep pursuing. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.120 You don't need everyone to be for you. You and 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.439 God are a majority. When you're wearing your crown. God 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.120 will open doors that no man can shut. He'll help 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.880 you accomplish what you could not accomplish on your own. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.600 He wouldn't have put the dream in you if he 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.920 didn't already have a way to bring it to pass. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.000 This young man went home from school that day very discouraged. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.800 His heart was set on playing baseball, but instead of 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.040 sitting around defeated, thinking, he wasn't good enough. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.160 He kept his crown on. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.000 His attitude was the coach may say I'm too small, 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.880 but I know I'm not a mistake. I'm the right size. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.600 I have what I need to fulfill my destiny. A 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.480 couple of weeks later, the school announced that because so 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.720 many boys tried out, they were forming a second team. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:28.960 He tried out and made that team. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.880 He was excited about playing, even though he knew he 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.520 was on the lesser talented team. Those two teams played 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.160 in the same division. There was about twelve teams. They 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.160 ended up playing for the championship, playing each other. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.120 This young man was the picture on his team. 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.840 Although he was told he was too small. He struck 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.480 out batter after batter after batter. They went on to 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.480 beat the quote more talented team and win the championship. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.079 What am I saying? People don't determine your destiny. They 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.560 don't know what's in you. Don't take off your crown 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.240 because somebody judged you by the outside. Somebody told you 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.880 you're not talented enough, not attractive enough, not tall enough, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:15.800 not smart enough. 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.200 You don't have to have them cheering you on. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.920 Keep your crown on, keep being your best honoring God, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.320 and he will get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.280 Jesus said in the Book of John, your approval or 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.400 disapproval means nothing to me. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:35.760 That's a powerful way to live. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.959 He was saying, I know who I am, and nothing 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.640 you do or don't do is going to change it. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.760 You can celebrate me or you can crucify me, but 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.200 I'm keeping my crown. See, people can be funny. One 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.280 moment they can be cheering for you, and another moment 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.760 they can be putting you down, trying to make you 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:00.120 look bad. One moment, Jesus was riding a donkey into town, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:05.040 people were waving palm branches, celebrating his arrival like a king. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.600 In a few days, those same people were hollering crucify him. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.280 He doesn't deserve to live. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.520 If you base we're in your crown on whether people 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.120 like you or don't, whether they believe in you or 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.280 don't believe in you, you're going to be taking your 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.440 crown on and off your whole life. You don't need 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:28.400 other people's approval, you have Almighty God's approval. Our attitude 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.160 should be you can be for me or against me. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.560 You can celebrate me or criticize me. But one thing 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.040 for certain, I'm not giving you my crown. I know 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.480 who I am. I am a royalty, I am accepted, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:49.000 I am approved, I am valuable. In the Scripture, Isaac 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.360 said to his son Esau, your brother has carried away 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:58.880 your blessing. Sometimes we let other people carry our blessing. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.760 We let what they say about us. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.199 Their disapproval, their discouraging words, keep us. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.680 From who we were meant to be. You have to 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:08.560 put your foot. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.040 Down and say, I am not going to let people 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.080 talk me out of my dreams. I'm not going to 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.800 let a coworker make me feel inferior, like I'm not 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.640 good enough, not going to let a coach, a teacher, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.880 a counselor talk me in to live in an average, mediocre, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.679 get by life. You have seeds of greatness. You are 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.480 destined to leave your mark on this generation. Don't let 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:38.200 anyone carry away your blessing. When we look back, the 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.160 enemy's been trying to get our crown. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:41.559 From the beginning of time. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.920 In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were living confident, secure. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.160 They were at peace with God, at peace with themselves. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.320 They were wearing their crowns. They knew they had God's 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.280 blessing and favor. But one day the enemy deceived them 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:02.240 into eating the forbidden fruit. They did immediately, they were afraid. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.760 They ran and hid. In effect, they gave the enemy 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.520 their crown. And that's what happens. When we're not wearing 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.840 our crown. It opens the door to fear, to insecurity, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.840 to shame. We focus on what we're not, the mistakes 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.280 we've made, what other people have said about us. Where 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:27.080 there's no crown, there's no covering, there's no reminder of 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.520 who we are. We believe those lies that can push 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.960 us down. And God came looking for Adam and Eve 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.800 couldn't find him. Said Adam, where are you? Adam said, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.000 we're hiding because we're naked. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.000 God said Adam. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.439 Who told you you were naked? God knew he had 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.600 taken off his crown. God is asking us today, who 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.319 told you there's something. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:53.720 Wrong with you? 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.239 Who told you you're just average, that you can't accomplish 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.520 your dreams, that you're too that you come from the 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.480 wrong family, that you're not good enough. I can assure 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.920 you that didn't come from our God. You need to 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.520 put your crown back on. You may have let some person, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.280 some event take it. The good news is you can 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.080 get it back. It's not too late. You have control 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.400 over your crown. It starts in your thinking. No more, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.200 I'm just a c student. I'm just average. No I 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.320 am an a student. I am full of wisdom. I 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:32.680 will excel in school. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:34.200 No more. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.360 I've been through too much joy. I lost a loved one. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:38.920 I'll never be happy again. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:39.360 No. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.120 God has given me beauty for these ashes. What he 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.920 started in my life he will finish. Don't sit around 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.720 feeling sorry for yourself. Put your crown back on. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.960 No more. I come from the wrong family. Nothing special 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.640 about me. No, I've been made in the image of 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:56.520 Almighty God. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.960 I'm a masterpiece, one of a kind, prize possession eh Joel. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.640 I could never do anything great in life. All the 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:05.600 odds are against me. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.600 No, I have the fever of God. I am equipped, empowered, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:10.400 and anointed. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.440 If you're going to reach your highest potential, you have 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.720 to keep your crown on. Doesn't happen automatically, So why 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.920 the scripture says to hold fast to what you have 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.840 so that no one takes it away. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.440 Have you allowed something. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.320 To get your crown? A disappointment, a bad break, a divorce. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.680 You're not passionate about life anymore. Your crown is waiting 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:40.520 for you. Have you let a mistake, a failure, bankruptcy 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.920 convince you to settle for second best. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.120 You need to go get your crown. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.640 You wouldn't be alive unless God had another victory in 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.440 front of you. Start dreaming again, start believing again, Start 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.440 hoping again. Talk to a young lady in the lobby recently. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.000 She was very discouraged because her marriage didn't make it. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.680 Her husband left her for someone else. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.320 She was a beautiful girl, but now she was convinced 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.640 that she wasn't attractive enough, not talented enough, not smart enough. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.440 She had taken her crown off. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.400 She told me all the things she should have done better, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.800 if I'd only done this, if I'd only done that. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.680 In her mind, it was all her fault. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.360 But when somebody leaves your life doesn't necessarily mean there's 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.840 something wrong with you. It could be the other person 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:29.680 is the problem. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.760 Have you ever thought about maybe they have some issues. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.760 If they left you, they'll leave the next person. But 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:40.200 the accuser will work overtime trying to convince you how 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.520 you don't measure up, how you're not valuable. How there's 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.760 nothing good in your future. He's trying to take your crown. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.280 The scripture says God will never leave us or forsake us. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.720 If they left you and you needed them, that would 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.440 mean God was forsaking you. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.040 So you canlude if they left you didn't need them. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.639 If they walked away, they weren't a part of your destiny. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.280 Isaiah said, God will give you double. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.840 For the unfair things that have happened. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.520 You may not realize it, but when they left, in 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.560 a sense, they did you a favor. They set you 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.280 up for what God really wants to do. He has 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:28.399 somebody amazing in your future, a divine connection, somebody better 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.240 than you imagined, somebody that will treat you. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.520 Like the king the queen you were meant to be. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.920 But you have to do your part and put your 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.760 crown back on. It's not going to happen if you 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:45.720 go around negative, discouraged, feeling unattractive. If you're unattractive on 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.280 the inside, you'll be unattractive on the outside. You carry 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.119 yourself the way you feel about yourself. I've seen ladies 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.240 that were not necessarily that attractive. They didn't have a 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.520 lot of natural beauty, but on the inside they have 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:05.800 it going on. When you're wearing your crown, you're confident, secure, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.080 You know you're a masterpiece, want of a kind, a 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.439 prize possession. You're not dwelling on all the negative chatter, 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.800 what you're not, what you don't have, what. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:18.720 Other people are saying. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.959 You go through the day with a smile on your face, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.239 a spring in your step. You know your royalty, that 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.760 you've been crowned with glory and honor. When you live 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.520 this way, you're going to come into some divine connections. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.800 You won't have to go after them. God will cause 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.879 the right people to track you down. And maybe today 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.640 you've been through a disappointment, a loss, something didn't work out. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.840 It would be easy for you to feel not attractive, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.119 not valuable, not excited about life. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.240 Get your crown back. That crown is what gives you 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:55.840 the fevor. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.080 The crown is what causes you to stand out. One 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.959 thing this happened has lessened your value. You are still 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.480 the prized possession, the apple of God's eye. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.240 Don't let a disappointment, a loss. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.480 Carry away your blessing. It's not the end, it's a 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.880 new beginning. This is what a lady in the scripture 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:21.080 had to do named Naomi. She lost her husband, later 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.840 lost two sons in a battle. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.240 She was so discouraged she didn't think she could go on. 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.000 She took off her crown. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.639 She used to be a happy woman, full of joy, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.680 fun to be around. Now she was bitter. She thought, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.760 I'm done. I'll never be happy again. She even changed 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:45.320 her name from Naomi, which means my joy, tomorrow, which 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:50.200 means bitter. When people called her Naomi, she was so heartbroken. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.960 She would say, don't call me that, I'm too depressed. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.120 Call me Mara. She was saying, call me bitter. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.359 The problem is when you take off your crown, you 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:02.840 take off the favor. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.360 The honor, the glory. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.200 That's what you need for God to pay you back 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.119 in those tough times. More than ever, you have to 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.720 keep reminding yourself, I am a child of the most 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:19.439 High God. I am extremely valuable. God has beauty for 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.960 these ashes. Double is coming my way. Naomi thought she 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.840 was finished. She moved back to her hometown, planning on 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.600 fading off into the sunset. But when she saw some 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.560 old friends and tried to convince them to call hermorrow, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.760 they said, Naomi, what are you talking about That's not 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.159 who you are. You're not bitter. We're calling you my joy. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.480 They kept calling her Naomi. Every time they did, they 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:51.360 were prophesying her future. She was trying to stay in defeat. 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.280 They said, no, you'll come in into victory. She kept 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.600 taking her crown off, they kept putting it back on. 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:58.320 What am I saying? 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.440 You need people around you that will remind you who 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.720 you are, not people that will get bitter with you. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:07.200 People agree with. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:11.600 The defeat, the mediocrity, but people who will call you blessed, 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.320 call you victorious, call your royalty. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:16.919 People that will remind. 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.199 You your best days are still yet to come. That 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.919 what's meant for harm, God's going to use to your advantage. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.640 People that will help you keep your crown on. That's 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:34.800 why every week I tell you you're blessed, your prosperous, redeemed, forgiven, talented, confident, strong, valuable, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:35.800 a masterpiece. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.399 What am I doing making sure that you're wearing your crown? 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:42.840 Life will try to take it off. My goal is 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:47.159 to help you keep it on. Naomi went back to 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:48.080 her hometown. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.040 Her daughter in law, Ruth, came with her, and Ruth 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.359 had lost her husband and she met a man named Boaz, 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:57.880 and Ruth and Boaz got married, and one day they 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.560 had this little baby boy. This time, Naomi was way 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.080 up there in years, didn't look like she had any 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.600 reason to live. But when she saw that little baby, 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:10.480 something came alive on the inside. 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:11.800 The scripture says. 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.960 The women in the town rejoiced, saying, Naomi, God has 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:20.080 given you a son. This baby will restore your youth. 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:24.320 She felt this new sense of purpose. She took care 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.240 of that little baby like it was her own. 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:27.600 She didn't think. 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.400 She'd ever be happy again, but now she is more 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.840 fulfilled than ever. That was God paying her back for 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:34.919 the unfair. 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.879 Things that have happened. Are you wearing your crown today? 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:41.280 Or have you let a disappointment, a loss, a bad 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:45.080 break convince you to take it off. Nothing that's happened 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.720 to you has stopped God's plan. He knows how to 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.360 give beauty for ashes, how to turn mourning into dancing. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.480 Like Naomi, you may have taken your crown off thinking 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:58.879 that you've seen your best days, but you need to 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:02.000 get ready. The latter part of your life is going 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:04.720 to be better than the former part. God still has 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:09.119 a purpose for beutiful, Phil, he still has something amazing 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:12.880 in your future. Put your crown back on. I heard 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:16.359 a story about Helen of Troy. She was an extremely 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:21.119 beautiful queen, a young woman born into royalty, loved and 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.240 admired by all the people. But one day she was 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:28.080 kidnapped and taken away to a foreign country. With all 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:32.880 the confusion, she was stricken with amnesia. She couldn't remember 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.399 her name or where she was from. She ended up 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:41.280 living on the streets, homeless, being taken advantage of here. 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.880 She had royalty in her blood. She was a respected 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.960 and admired queen in her hometown, but nobody knows where 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:53.040 she is, and she doesn't know who she is. Back 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.840 at home, all of her friends and family never gave 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.680 up on her. Even though it had been years and years, 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:02.080 they still believed she was alive. This one man that 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:05.440 loved her dearly, he'd taken care of her growing up. 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:07.920 He set out to try to find her again. And 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:11.680 while he was searching the streets of this far away country, 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:15.280 he saw this pitiful looking woman sitting by the water. 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:20.560 Clothes were raggedy, here was matted, face was battered and bruised. 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:23.720 He was about to pass on by, but something looked 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:28.320 strangely familiar. He asked her what her name was. She 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:32.200 mumbled something, wouldn't really talk. He looked closer and became 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:36.080 even more intrigued. He asked if he could see her hands. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.080 He remembered the line prints on her hands. 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:43.080 She showed them. When he saw them, he was astonished. 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:48.040 He couldn't believe it. He whispered, Helen. She looked at him, confused. 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.879 He said, you are Helen of Troy. You are the 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:53.920 Queen Helen. Don't you remember. 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:56.840 Suddenly it was like a light turned on. 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:03.160 Her face brightened up, the fall lifted. She rediscovered who 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:03.960 she really was. 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:05.760 She hugged her friend. 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.879 They went back to her hometown, and once again she 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:12.840 became the queen that she was meant to be. Like Helen, 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:17.640 too many people today are suffering from amnesia. They were 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:22.280 born into royalty, created to reign in life. God crowned 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.640 them with honor and glory, but they've forgotten who they 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:32.240 are because of bad breaks, disappointments, mistakes they've made. They're 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:36.960 living far below their privileges, thinking that they're average that 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:41.359 beaten down by life. Like this man did for Helen. 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:45.160 I'm here to remind you who you are. You are 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:47.160 a child of the most High God. 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:50.240 You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:55.800 There is a crown of honor that belongs to you. 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:58.879 Your mind may be in a fog, but I believe 0:25:58.960 --> 0:25:59.880 in your spirit. 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:01.520 Something is coming alive. 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:06.800 Strongholds that have held you back are being broken, defeated thinking, 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:11.760 negative mentality. Those chains are being loosed. You're gonna rediscover 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:16.720 who you really are. Not average, not mediocre, but royalty, 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:21.120 a king, a queen. Now do your part and put 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:24.040 your crown back on. I read about a six year 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:27.920 old boy. He was born during the French Revolution. His 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:31.800 father was King Louis the sixteenth. In all the uprising, 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:36.240 both his mother and father were condemned to death. They 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:40.080 brought them out on the public square and had them beheaded. 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:43.520 The crowds were so against them they begin to call 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:47.040 for this little boy, saying, bring out the prince, let's get. 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:48.440 Rid of all royalty. 0:26:48.760 --> 0:26:52.359 Just before they did, someone said, no, don't kill him, 0:26:52.720 --> 0:26:56.119 that's too easy. His soul will go to heaven. Let's 0:26:56.119 --> 0:27:00.200 turn him over to the evil woman named Meg. Teach 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:02.960 him how to do wrong, how to lie. 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:05.720 To cheat, to say bad things. Then when he dies, 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:06.800 he won't go to heaven. 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.040 They agreed and turn this little boy over to the 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:13.040 evil woman, and she began to teach him how to 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:16.400 say profane things. But every time she tried to get 0:27:16.480 --> 0:27:19.280 him to say something bad, he would put his foot 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:21.720 down and say, no, I'm not going to do it. 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.679 I was born to be a king. I will not 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:29.000 talk that way. When she tried to get him to lie, 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:32.160 to cheat, to compromise the same thing, I'm a king. 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:33.639 I will not do it. 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:38.520 When the enemy tries to reprogram your thinking, telling you 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.719 that your average, your ordinary, just say no thanks. 0:27:41.960 --> 0:27:44.840 I'm a king. I will not think that way. 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:48.439 When he tries to convince you to live mediocre, a 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:52.360 defeated life, do like this little boy, No thanks. I 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:56.600 know I am royalty. I will not live beneath my privileges. 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.560 I know who I am a child of the most 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:03.719 High God. Friends, I'm asking you to keep your crown on. 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:08.040 You may have been through disappointments, lost life will always 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:08.840 try to take it. 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:12.159 You have to hold fast to what God has given you. 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:17.600 Don't let anyone or anything carry away your blessing. If 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:19.800 you'll make this decision with me that You're going to 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:23.760 keep your crown. I believe and declare you will reign 0:28:23.960 --> 0:28:28.080 in life. You will rise higher, accomplish your dreams, and 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:30.040 reach the fullness of your destiny. 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:33.679 In Jesus's name. If you receive it today, can you 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:34.240 say amen. 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:39.240 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:42.400 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:47.160 Would you pray with me? 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