Know Who You Are

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I like to start with 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.080 something funny, and I heard about this mother. One Sunday morning. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.079 She went into her son's room and said, son, wake up, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.880 it's time to go to church. He said, no, Mom, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.600 I'm not going to church today. She said why not? 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.880 He said, I'll give you two good reasons. Number one, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.799 I don't like the people, and number two, they don't 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.679 like me. She said, all right, I'll give you two 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.000 better reasons why you should go. Number one, you're forty 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:44.920 nine years old, and number two, you're the pastor. Hold 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.600 up your bible, say it like you mean it. This 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.640 is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:49.959 I am. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.560 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.080 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.680 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.920 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.760 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.359 to talk to you today about knowing who you are. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.480 It's easy to go through life thinking that we're average. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.840 We're ordinary. There's nothing special about me. I'm just one 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.280 of the six billion people on earth. Now, when God 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.519 created you, he put a part of himself in you. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.160 You could say you have the DNA of Almighty God. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.040 You are destined to do great things, destined to leave 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.600 your mark on this generation. The truth is, there is 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.800 nothing average about you. But too many times we don't 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.960 realize who we are. We focus on our weaknesses, what 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.040 we don't have, the mistakes we've made, the family we 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.600 come from. We end up settling for mediocrity when we 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.240 were created for greatness. If you're going to break out 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.120 of average every day, you need to remind yourself. I 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.960 have the DNA of the most High God. Greatness is 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.760 in my genes. I come from a bloodline of champions. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.040 I grew up watching Archie Manning play football. He's a 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:17.479 great quarterback, incredibly talented. Now two of his sons, Peyton 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.360 and Eli, are both great quarterbacks as well. How could 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.320 that be out of the millions of young men that 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.240 play football, How can these two stand out. It's not 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:33.440 a coincidence. It's in their blood. They have their father's DNA. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.520 That's in the natural. Switch over to the spiritual. Your 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:43.880 heavenly father spoke worlds into existence, He flung stars, into space. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.400 He painted every sunrise, he designed every flower. He made 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.880 man out of dust and breathe life into him. Now 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.440 here's the key. He's not just the creator of the universe. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.159 He's not just the all powerful God. He's your heavenly father. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:07.039 You have his DNA. Imagine what you can do. When 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:12.320 you realize who you are, you won't go around intimidated, insecure, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.360 thinking I'm lacking, I'm not that talented. I come from 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.400 the wrong family. No, you come from the right family. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.640 Your father created it all. When you know who you are, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.840 it changes your thinking. From I'm unlucky, I never get 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.919 any good breaks to I have the favor of God. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.960 Blessings are chasing me down from this obstacle's too big, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.679 I'll never overcome it. To I can do all things 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.440 through Christ. From I'm an average student. All I can 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.680 make or sees to I'm an a student. I have 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.400 the mind of Christ. From I don't have a good personality. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.760 I'm not of that attractive to I am fearfully and 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.080 wonderfully made. I am one of a kind. When you 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.320 know who you are, you'll start thinking like a winner, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.240 talk like a winner, carrying yourself like you were a winner. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.320 There used to be a billboard that asked the question 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:11.680 who's the father? It was advertising DNA testing. They can 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:16.000 take a child's DNA and test another person's DNA and 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.960 see if it matches. If it does, it proves those 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.800 two people are scientifically related. Out of the billions of 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.600 people on Earth, the chances of your DNA matching someone 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.080 that's not your family is so small that it's inconceivable. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.840 When you gave your life to Christ, the scripture talks 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:42.479 about how you became a new creation. You were born 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.960 into a new family. You entered into a new bloodline. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:52.320 Now imagine that somehow we could do spiritual DNA testing. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.520 They took a sample DNA from your heavenly father, then 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.000 a sample DNA from you. They ran all the tests. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.840 The good news is it would come back a perfect match, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.960 proven beyond all doubt. You are his child, You have 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:13.280 his DNA. You come from a royal bloodline. Now, don't 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.000 you dare go around thinking that your average I could 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.239 never accomplish my dreams. I'll never get out of debt. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.520 Are you kidding? Do you know who your father is? 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.840 You have his DNA. He created worlds. There's nothing too 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.880 much for you. You can overcome that sickness. You can 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:37.120 run that company, you can build, support that orphanage. You 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.480 can take your family to a new level. Quit believing 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.480 those lies. You've reached your limits. You've gone as far 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.600 as you can go. No, start talking to yourself like 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.280 a winner. It's in your blood. You're expected to succeed, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.280 You're expected to get well, You're expected to live debt free. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.960 Why because of who your father is. See, in one sense, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.600 it's no big deal for me to be up here today. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.520 My father was a minister for over fifty years. This 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.320 is all I'd seen growing up. It's in my genes. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.280 It's no big deal to see Archie Manning sons play football. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.120 Archie was a great quarterback. In the same way, it's 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.040 no big deal for you to accomplish your dreams. It's 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.160 no big deal for you to live healthy and whole. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.720 It's no big deal for you to lead the company 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:30.360 in sales. Why, like father, like son, it's in your 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:36.560 spiritual DNA. I saw a documentary on these championship race horses, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.360 the kind just see running the Kentucky Derby. It's not 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.480 a coincidence that those horses end up the fastest horses 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.840 in the world. They've been carefully studied and carefully bred 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:53.640 for generations. It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:58.520 to breed a racehorse with a champion stallion. It's very expensive. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.400 Before breeding, the owners will go back fifty or sixty 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.640 years and study the bloodline of a particular stallion. They'll 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:13.560 research his father, his grandfather, and study how long their 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.640 stride was, how tall their legs are, their takeoff speed, 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:22.720 their endurance. With all this information, they'll choose what they 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:27.840 believe to be the perfect match. They understand winners don't 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.560 just randomly happen. It's in their DNA. That's what sets 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.600 these horses apart. They have generation after generation of champions 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.560 on the inside. Now, when the little colt is born, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.280 his legs may be wobbly, he can barely stand up. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.079 He doesn't look different than any other colt is born. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.680 The owners could think, oh, man, we have wasted our money. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.240 This colt is not a thoroughbred. Look at him. No, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:01.000 they're not concerned with his present weaknesses. They're not worried 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.679 about what color he is, how pretty he is, or 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.360 even how muscular he is. They are totally confident knowing 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.480 that on the inside of that little cold he has 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.560 the blood of a champion. That's how it is with 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.400 you and me. You didn't come from ordinary stock. You 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.520 came from the best of the best. It doesn't matter 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.720 what we look like on the outside, what color we are, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.680 how tall or short, how attractive or unattractive, doesn't matter 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.560 how many weaknesses we have. You may struggle with an addiction, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.400 you may have made some mistakes. What superses all of 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.640 that is on the inside. You have the DNA of 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.840 a champion. You come from a long list of winners. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.599 You look back and study your spiritual bloodline. You'll see 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.920 your elder brother defeated the enemy. There's victory in your bloodline. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.679 You'll see your ancestral mode says parted the Red Sea. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.240 There's great faith in your bloodline. David, a shepherd boy, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:11.560 defeated a giant. There's favor in your bloodline. Sampson pushed 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.360 down the walls of a huge building. There's supernatural strength, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.160 power in your bloodline. Neemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.160 when all the odds were against him. There's increase, promotion, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.679 abundance in your bloodline. A young lady named Esther stepped 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.160 up and saved her people from a certain death. There's 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.400 courage in your bloodline. Now, don't go around thinking I 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.439 could never break this addiction. I could never afford college, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.120 I'll never see my family restored. No, you come from 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.679 a bloodline of champions. It's in your DNA. You were 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:55.000 born to win, born to overcome, born to live in victory. Listen, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:12:00.240 it doesn't matter what your present circumstances look like. That 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.200 addiction didn't come to stay. Freedom is in your DNA. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.840 That sickness is not permanent. Health and wholeness is in 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.240 your DNA. That family problem, strife, division, it's not going 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:18.480 to last forever. Restoration is in your DNA. Lack struggle, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:24.559 barely getting by, That is not your destiny. Abundance, increase, opportunity, 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.880 good breaks. That's what's in your DNA. Now, when thoughts 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.120 tell you that it's never going to happen, just go 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:37.440 back and check your spiritual birth certificate. Remind yourself who 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.560 you are. That thought says you'll never accomplish your dreams, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.280 you'll never get well, just say no, thanks, You've got 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:49.160 the wrong person. I've already checked my birth certificate. I 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.439 know who I am. Now, let me verify what's in 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.720 my DNA that's found in God's word. Am I supposed 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:01.720 to live average, lonely, struggling, always getting the short end 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.520 of the stick. No, it says right there in Psalms, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.560 God's favor surrounds me like a shield. It says, no 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.480 weapon formed against me will prosper. It says the number 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.959 of my days he will fulfill. It says, as for 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.000 me and my house, we will serve the Lord. It 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.720 says I will lend and not borrow. Goodness and mercy 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.520 are following us. Good breaks are chasing us down. That's 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.400 what's in your DNA. When thoughts tell you otherwise, don't 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.920 get discouraged. Just keep checking your spiritual birth certificate, keep 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:39.440 reminding yourself who you are. My brother Paul and his 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:44.040 beautiful wife Jennifer have a son named Jackson. When Jackson 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.199 was a little boy, every night, when Jennifer would take 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.440 him to bed, after she would pray with him, she 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.600 would go through this long list of superheroes, telling Jackson 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.880 who he was. That was her way of speaking faith 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.360 into him, letting him know he was going to do 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.240 great things. She would say, all right, Jackson, let me 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:07.040 remind you who you are. You're my Superman, You're my 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:11.439 buzz light Year, You're my Power Ranger, You're my rescue Hero, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.840 You're my Lightning McQueen. On and on. Little Jackson would 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.199 lie there, big smile on his face, taking it all in. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.120 One night, they got home late and she wasn't able 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.600 to go through that same routine. She put him in 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.320 bed in a hurry. A few minutes she heard this 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.960 little voice hollering out of his room. Mama, Mama. She 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.560 rushed in Jackson, what's wrong? He said, Mama, you forgot 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.520 to tell me who I am. A lot of people 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.720 in life have never been told who they are. They've 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.920 had negative voices playing over and over. You're not talented, 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.760 you're not going to ever get married, You'll never get 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.200 out of debt. You come from the wrong family. As 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.640 long as those voices are playing, it will keep you 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.400 from your destiny. Maybe no body told you who you are. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.000 Let me help you out. You're a child of the 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:09.240 Most High God. You are strong, you are talented, you 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:14.800 are beautiful, you are wise, you are courageous. You have 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.560 seeds of greatness. You can do all things through Christ. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.120 You didn't come from ordinary stock. You are thoroughbred. You 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.640 have winning in your dna. You are destined to do 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:31.480 great things. That's who Almighty God says you are. In 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.280 the Old Testament, people understood the power of the bloodline 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.320 more than we do today. God started the first Covenant 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.440 with a Jewish man named Abraham, and back in those days, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.280 if you weren't Jewish, you didn't have a right to 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.000 God's blessings in favor. It was limited to one bloodline, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.520 the Jewish people. In Luke thirteen, Jesus saw a woman 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.080 that had been bent over with the sickness for eighteen years. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.640 He made an interesting state. He said, should not this 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.800 woman be loosed from this sickness? Seeing that she is 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:11.320 a daughter of Abraham. He was saying, she comes from 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.040 the right family. Healing is in her dna. She has 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.200 a right to be well. Jesus went over and made 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:23.400 her home. Another place, just the opposite happened. A gentile 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.800 woman came up and begged Jesus to heal her daughter. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.920 Jesus said, in a fact, I can't do it. You 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.720 come from the wrong family. It didn't seem fair, but 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.120 that's how powerful the bloodline was. Now here's the beauty. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.200 When Jesus died and rose again, he made a way 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.520 for all people to come to him, both Jews and Gentiles. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.600 Galatian says, if you're in Christ, you're the seed of 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.040 Abraham and errors according to the promise. Now, don't go 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.000 through life believe in the lives that you come from 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:03.360 the wrong family. Your mother was depressed, you'll always be depressed. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.040 Your dad was an alcoholic, you'll be an alcoholic. No, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.840 you have entered into a new bloodline. If God was 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.200 standing before you today, he would say the same thing 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.760 he said to that first lady. Should not this man 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.520 be free from this addiction, seeing that he is a 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:26.040 son of Abraham? Should not this woman be healthy and whole, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.280 seeing that she is a daughter of Abraham. Friends, you 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.720 have a right to be blessed, to be free, to 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.919 be healthy, to be happy, to be whole. It's in 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.720 your DNA. Now. Your natural bloodline may have some negative 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:47.240 things in it, but the spiritual bloodline will always overpower 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:53.680 your natural blood line. The spiritual is greater than the natural. Well, Joel, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.960 I got a lot of dysfunction in my family. God 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.960 a law coming against me. No, your spiritual blood line, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.720 says you can overcome every obstacle. You can break that addiction, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.280 you can beat that sickness. You can set a new 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:12.359 level for your family. Why you come from the right bloodline, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:16.879 You have the DNA of a champion. Judges, Chapter six. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.920 The Midianites had overtaken the people of Israel. They were 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.000 making their lives miserable. When the Israelites crops would come out, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.960 the Midianites would go take them. They were bigger and stronger. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.600 It looked like they would eventually drive the Israelites away. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.439 There was a man named Gideon that was hiding in 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:41.320 the fields, afraid of the Midianites. An angel appeared under 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.600 him and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.280 I can imagine. Gideon looked around and thought, who's he 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.560 talking about. I'm not a mighty hero. Gideon wasn't strong 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:58.240 and courageous. He was just the opposite, afraid and intimidated. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:04.320 Yet God called him a mighty hero. Like Gideon, you 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.160 may feel weak, but God calls you strong. You may 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:13.080 feel intimidated, God calls you courageous. You may feel inadequate. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.560 God calls you well able. You may think your average, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.960 but God calls you a mighty hero. Now when you 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.520 get up in the morning and the negative thoughts come 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.280 reminding you of what you're not telling you of all 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.800 your flaws, your weaknesses. Put your shoulders back, hold your 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.920 head up high. Dare to look in the mirror and say, 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:40.200 good morning, you, mighty hero. Let these thoughts play all 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.359 through the day. I am strong, I'm courageous. I have 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.920 the DNA of a champion. I am who God says 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.680 I am. I can do what God says I can do. 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:56.080 You've got to remind yourself who you are, not weak, defeated. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.720 You are a mighty hero. The angel went on, say, Gideon, 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:06.119 you are to deliver God's people from the Midianites. Gideon said, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.840 how can I do that? I come from the poorest family. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.960 I am the least one in my father's house. What 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.800 was the problem? Gideon didn't know who he was. God 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.399 had just called him a mighty hero. A couple of 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.960 chapters later, Gideon was talking with his enemies. He asked them, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:30.359 what did the men look like that you saw? They said, Gideon, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.640 they looked like you, like a king's son. Here Gideon 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.280 felt like he was the least inadequate, not able to 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:44.000 but even his enemies said you look like a king's son. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.000 If you allow the wrong thoughts to play in your mind, 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.720 you can have the talent, the opportunity, the strength, the looks. 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.880 But like Gideon, you'll make excuses and talk yourself out 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.520 of it. Now, I love the fact that God not 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.639 only calls you a mighty hero, but even the enemy 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:08.120 sees you as a king's son, a king's daughter. He 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.760 knows who you are. Now make sure you know who 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:16.800 you are. Carry yourself like a king, like a queen, 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.600 like a mighty hero. You come from the right family. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.880 It's interesting when God called Gideon a mighty hero. Up 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.639 to that point, Gideon had not done anything significant. He 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.040 had not parted a red sea like Moses. He had 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.480 not defeated a giant like David. He had not brought 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.160 somebody back to life like the prophet Elijah. I can 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.720 understand God calling him that if he had had done 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.760 something amazing. But it seemed like he's just ordinary, insignificant, 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:51.000 nothing special about him. But God saw something in Gideon 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:55.040 that other people did not see. God saw his potential. 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.479 God saw what he could become. You may feel like 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.600 you're you may think you're ordinary, but God sees the 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:08.240 mighty hero in you. God sees the DNA of a champion. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.840 He sees the king's son, the king's daughter. Now do 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:17.200 yourself a favor. Turn off the negative recording. This reminded 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.480 you of what you're not, and get in agreement with God. 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:25.720 Start seeing yourself as that mighty hero. When God told 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.159 Moses to go speak to Pharaoh and tell him to 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.720 let the people go, the first thing Moses said was 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:37.160 who am I? He was saying, God, I'm ordinary. Pharaoh's 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:39.600 the leader of a nation. He's not going to listen 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:44.000 to me. Moses, for good who he was. He didn't 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.639 see himself as a king's son, but as inadequate. He 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:54.160 focused on his weaknesses, his limitations, started making excuses, said God, 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.760 I can't go talk to Pharaoh. I stutter. I've got 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:02.240 a problem with my speech. God said Moses, who made 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:05.960 your tongue? Who makes the deaf to hear? Who makes 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.400 the blind to see? God was saying, Moses, I breathed 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:13.640 my life into you. I put my DNA on the inside. 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.640 You may feel weak, inadequate, insecure, But Moses, I don't 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:21.919 want to hear your excuses. Quit telling me what you're not. 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:25.520 I have the final say, and I say you're a 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.560 king's son. I say you're a mighty hero. I say 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.679 you can do all things through Christ. That's what God 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.960 is saying to each one of us today. I heard 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:39.000 a story about an eagle that was born in a 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.000 chicken coop and raised with a bunch of chickens. For years, 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.639 he pecked like a chicken, balked like a chicken, ate 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.600 like a chicken. That's all he'd ever seen. But one 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:52.199 day he looked up and saw an eagle soaring in 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:56.880 the sky. Something deep on the inside said, that's what 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:00.720 you were created to do. His DNA calling out to 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:04.840 him when he looked around all of his circumstances said, 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:08.840 you're just a chicken. He got his courage up. He 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.760 told his chicken buddies that he was going to soar 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.480 like that eagle. They laughed, like you are? They said, 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:19.000 are you kidding? You can't soar. You're just a chicken. 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:22.960 All he had ever heard was chicken. Chicken had become 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:27.640 ingrained in his thinking, But deep down, something said, this 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:31.359 is not who I am. I wasn't made to be average, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.919 to live in this limited environment. I may be in 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.480 a chicken coop, but I don't feel like a chicken. 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:40.119 I don't think like a chicken. I don't look like 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:43.560 a chicken. This is not my destiny. I have the 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:47.719 DNA of an eagle. He got to noticing that his 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:51.440 wings were not like the others. They were bigger, stronger, wider. 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:54.800 He decided to try to fly. He flapped them back 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:58.000 and forth as fast as he could, barely lifted off 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.639 the ground, crashed into the side the chicken coop. His 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:04.679 chicken friends laugh and we told you you're no different 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:08.080 than us. You're wasting your time. You're a chicken. He 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:11.720 didn't let that failure, nor what other people said, nor 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:15.800 disappointments talk him out of it. Every day he kept 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:19.879 trying being his best. Sure Enough, one day he lifted 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:22.399 up out of that chicken coop and begin to soar 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.879 way up in the sky. With every breath, he said, 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:29.280 this is what I was created for. This is who 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:33.680 I really am. I knew I was an eagle. Some 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:36.439 of you have been in that chicken coop way too long. 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:39.399 Let me tell you what you already know. You're not 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:44.320 a chicken. You're an eagle. Don't let that limited environment 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:47.600 rub off on you. Don't let how you were raised 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.560 or what somebody said keep you from knowing who you 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:57.080 really are. Check your spiritual birth certificate. You'll find you've 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:00.600 been made in the image of Almighty God crowned you 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:04.400 with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:08.480 You were never created to be average, to be mediocre. 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:14.920 You were created to soar abundance, opportunity, good breaks. That's 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:18.400 in your DNA. Now get rid of a chicken mentality 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:22.600 and start having an eagle mentality. I know a young 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:25.760 lady that was raised in a single parent home in 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:29.520 government housing. Her mother wasn't around much growing up. They 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:33.040 were very poor, and at sixteen years old, she got 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:36.280 pregnant and had to drop out of school. One time, 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.800 she had a big dream for her life. She knew 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:41.920 she's going to be something great, but now it looked 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:45.280 like this cycle of lack and defeat would be passed 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:48.760 to the next generation. She moved into a tiny apartment 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:51.720 to try to raise her son, but she couldn't make 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:55.560 ends meet. She had to go on welfare. She found 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:59.120 a job at a school cafeteria punching the meal tickets. 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:03.520 She was making minimum wage, barely making it through, but 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:06.320 something down in here said you were made for more. 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:10.240 You're not a chicken, You're an eagle. She decided to 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:13.480 go back to school. In two years, she got her ged. 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:18.600 That was good, but she wasn't satisfied. She enrolled in college. 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:21.480 She would work during the day and go to class 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:26.040 at night. In four years, she graduated from college with honors. 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:29.920 She still wasn't satisfied. She went back and got her 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:34.879 master's degree. Today, she's the assistant principal at the same 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:38.000 school where she used to punch meal tickets. She said, 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:41.080 I used to be on welfare, but now I'm doing 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:44.880 fair and well. That's what happens when you know who 0:27:44.920 --> 0:27:49.400 you are. Now. You may work around a bunch of chickens, 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:53.720 you may live by some chickens. You may have relatives 0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:56.320 that still think they're chickens. You got to do like 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:59.640 she did, draw that line in the sand and say, 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:02.960 I may be in a limited environment, but I am 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:07.040 not settling here. I know who I am. I'm an eagle, 0:28:07.520 --> 0:28:11.600 I'm a King's son, I'm a mighty hero, I'm a thoroughbred. 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:16.600 I've got winning in my dna. Friends, you come from 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:20.680 a bloodline of champions. Get up every morning and check 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:25.320 your spiritual birth certificate, remind yourself who you are. If 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:28.520 you do this, I believe and declare you're going to 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:32.840 soar to new heights. You're going to rise above every obstacle. 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.000 You're going to set new levels for your family and 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:40.160 become everything God's created you to be. In Jesus' name, 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:44.600 If you receive it, can you say it in today? 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