Pregnant With Possibility

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And I like to start with 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.680 something funny and I heard about this husband. He was 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.639 quietly reading his newspaper when his wife snuck up behind 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.160 him and hit him in the head with. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.079 A frying pan. He said, what was that for? 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.600 She said, that was for the piece of paper I 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.120 found in your pocket with. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:29.560 The name Mary Lou on it. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.720 He said, oh, honey, that's just one of the horses 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.519 that I bet on at the racetrack last week. She apologized, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.680 went about her business. Two days later, she hit him 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.360 on the head with a bigger frying pan. When he 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.280 came to he said, what no world was that for? 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:50.079 She said, your horse just called. Say it like you 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.960 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.360 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.440 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.000 I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.320 God. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.000 I boldly confess, my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.919 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.480 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.280 pregnant with possibility. When a woman is pregnant, for the 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.440 first few months, she doesn't look any different. She's the 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.160 same size, wears the same clothes, has the same amount 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.399 of energy from the outside there's no sign that she's 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.880 going to have a baby. And if you just looked 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.760 at it in the natural, you could think you're not pregnant. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.600 There's nothing different about you. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.000 But what you can't see is on the inside a 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.320 seed has taken root. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.520 Conception has occurred. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.080 In a few months, she'll start showing gaining more weight. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.480 A few more months, she'll. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.280 Feel something kicking on the inside out of nowhere, a 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.120 kick here, a kick there. She's still never seen the 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.640 baby in person, she's never held that baby, but she's 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:03.320 not worried. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.440 She knows the baby is on the way. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.280 Nine months after she conceives, she'll give birth to that 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.760 little child in the same way. You may not realize it. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:14.960 But you are pregnant. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.400 God has placed all kinds of potential in you. There 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:27.719 are gifts, talents, ideas He's put dreams, businesses, books, songs, healing, freedom. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:33.799 You are pregnant with possibility, pregnant with increase, pregnant with healing. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.200 And just because you don't see anything happening doesn't mean 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.960 it's not going to come to pass. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.200 That seed God put. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:47.000 In you has already taken root. Conception has occurred. Like 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.560 this woman. You may not see any sign of it 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.320 for some time, but don't worry. Your time is coming. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.760 You are pregnant with your miracle, pregnant with abundance. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.000 May be pregnant with a new business, and. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.120 Instead of being discouraged down a joy It's never gonna happen. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.280 It's been so long. I've been through too much, and 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.800 our attitude should be I can feel something kicking on 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.480 the inside. I know this baby is still alive. I'm 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.479 going to give birth to what God put in me. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.400 Maybe you've struggled with an addiction for a long time, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.120 instead of believing the lie that you could never break it. No, 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.840 I'm pregnant with freedom. I'm pregnant with wholeness. You may 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.719 not see any changes, but I can feel something kicking. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.760 I can feel something stirring down in my spirit. When 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.560 you live with this kind of expectancy, you're going to 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.120 give birth to what God put in you. Psalm seven 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.400 says the ungodly are pregnant with trouble. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.680 The good news is that's not you. You are the righteous. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:54.200 You're not pregnant with trouble, with bad break, sickness, lack, depression. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.640 You are pregnant with favor, pregnant with talent, pregnant with victory. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.560 All through the day, Lord, I want to thank you 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.640 that I'm pregnant with your promises that I will give 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.520 birth to everything you put in me. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.919 You may not see any changes. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.120 May not look in the natural like it's ever going 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.680 to work out, but deep down in your spirit, you 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:21.479 have to believe that conception has occurred. You are pregnant 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.880 with that new house you've been dreaming about. In God's 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.400 perfect timing, when everything is ready, you're going to give birth. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.080 Your family may be struggling dysfunction in your home. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.200 Don't live worried. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:39.080 You are pregnant with restoration, pregnant with a breakthrough, or 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.799 maybe business. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.039 Is slow you lost your main client. You could easily 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:44.920 be discouraged. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.839 But you can feel something kicking on the inside, something 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.000 saying you are the head and not the tell whatever 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:57.000 you touch will prosper and succeed. Perhaps your dream looks impossible. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.160 It's been a long time. You tried and it didn't work, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.000 But deep down you can't help it. Something keeps kicking, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.160 telling you that it's on the way. What God started, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:11.400 he will finish. I talked to a gentleman recently he'd 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.000 been diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told him that it 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.360 was a very invasive type that would spread quickly to 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.760 other areas. After the surgery, he was going to have 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.880 to take one year of chemotherapy. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.920 The prognosis didn't look good. He didn't get depressed. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.680 He didn't go around saying why God me. He understood 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.720 this principle that he was pregnant with healing. The doctors 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.080 performed the surgery. Afterwards, they came in his room scratching 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.440 their heads. They were certain that it was an invasive type, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.760 that it would spread quickly, very dangerous. But when they 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.960 retested it, it wasn't. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:51.400 What they thought. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.640 They were able to remove all the cancer, didn't need 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.960 any more treatment. Today he's totally cancer free. You may 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.880 be struggling with an illness, fighting a battle in your 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.440 health instead of accepting it, thinking that's the. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.760 Way it's always going to be. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.720 Keep reminding yourself that you are pregnant. You already have 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.480 conceived that healing is already in you. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:16.600 It's just a. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.200 Matter of time before you give birth. Nothing can snatch 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.680 you out of God's hands. Don't go around negative complaining. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:24.680 Turn it around. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.240 The medical report doesn't look good. But I can feel 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.760 healing kicking down on the inside of me. No weapon 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.120 formed against me will prosper. Doesn't look like I could 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.240 ever get out of debt, but I can feel abundance 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.360 kicking on the inside. I will lend and not borrow, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.600 or all my circumstances say that I'll be bearing my 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.680 whole life. Never meet the right person, never break the addiction. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.079 But deep down I can feel something stirring in my spirit. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.319 Can I tell you I am looking at pregnant people today. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:04.480 You are pregnant with possibility. Quit telling yourself that you 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.320 could never get ahead. You don't have enough of this, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.240 enough of that. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:09.400 No, you are. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:14.440 Pregnant with success, pregnant with ideas, pregnant with your destiny. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.520 You're going to give birth to what God put in you. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.080 It's not too late. You haven't missed your chance. In 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.120 the scripture, Sarah was nearly one hundred years old when 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.560 she gave birth to Isaac, way too old in the natural. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.640 But we serve a supernatural God. He can make a 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.400 way when you don't see away. Don't abort your baby, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.760 don't talk to yourself out of your dreams, don't give 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.360 up on what God promised you. You can still give birth, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.679 you can still meet the right person, still start your business, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.600 still go to college, still break the addiction. That seed 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.440 is still alive in you. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.479 And here's the key. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.000 You can't judge what's in you by what's around you. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.520 All of Sarah's circumstances said, you'll be bearing. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.280 Your whole life. You're too old. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:11.040 Nobody your age has babies. That's impossible. If she were 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.640 to believed that lie, let that seed take root, it 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.280 would have never happened. You can draw in the negative 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.800 with your doubt, or you can draw in God's blessings 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.040 with your faith. Don't let what you see around you 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.400 cause you to give up on your dreams. I was 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.040 in a large city last week, and part of the 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.040 city was very beautiful, but another part was very run down. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.920 Miles and miles of abandoned homes, people living next to 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.199 boarded up houses. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:43.520 We drove through during the daytime. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.400 There were hundreds, if not thousands, of people outside, young 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:53.840 and old, just hanging out, no purpose, no direction. Most 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.160 of them that's all they've ever known. They were born 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:04.160 into it, growing up in the projects, seeing drugs, mediocrity, violence. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.680 You may be in some kind of limited environment today 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.600 and nothing inspiring around you in the natural, there's no 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.920 way you could get out, get an education, be successful. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.560 But what's around you does not determine what God put 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:25.000 in you. You have seeds of greatness. You are pregnant 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:30.880 with success, pregnant with ability, pregnant with talent. God did 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:37.079 not create anyone without putting something significant on the inside. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.679 Don't let what's on the outside, how you were raised, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:45.840 lack dysfunction convince you to abort your dream. When you 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:50.199 get quiet alone at night, when it's just you and God, 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.160 if you'll listen carefully, you'll hear something whispering. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.800 This is not your destiny. You were made for more. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.719 What is that that's your baby kicking. It's because you're 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:03.760 about to give birth. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:10.760 You're going to see supernatural opportunities, explosive blessings, divine connections. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.080 God's going to help you go where you could not 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.560 go on your own. This is what happened to my father. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.640 He was raised in a very poor family. His parents 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.479 were cotton farmers, and they lost everything during the Great Depression. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.400 Growing up, he had no money, no education, barely enough 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.200 food to even survive. Didn't look like he would ever 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.000 amount to much. The statistics said he would just have 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.200 to stay on the farm and pick cotton the rest. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.400 Of his life. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.280 But statistics don't determine your destiny. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:45.160 God does. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.240 Don't become a victim of your environment. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.760 You are a victory. Where you are is not who 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:54.160 you are. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.319 When my father was seventeen, he gave his life to Christ, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.640 the first one in his face. When he did, something 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.920 came alive on the inside. Suddenly he had a dream 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.080 to become a pastor. He knew one day he would 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.200 pastor a large church. God dropped that in his spirit. 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.160 He told me, Joel, when I was seventeen, I made 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.280 the decision that my children would never be raised in 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.320 the poverty and lack that I was raised in. What 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.240 happened He became pregnant. He could feel that baby kicking 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.560 on the inside. But if someone were to have studied 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.160 my father at the age of seventeen in that limited environment, 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.360 nobody in his family had ever been successful, they would 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.640 have thought nothing special about you. You're not going to 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.560 do anything great. In other words, you're not pregnant. There's 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.679 no sign on the outside. You're not showing. You look 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.840 just the same. But what they couldn't see. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.160 Was conception had already occurred. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.160 He looked the same on the outside, but on the 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.040 inside a seed had taken root. He knew he was 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.960 destined to leave his mark in his generation. He didn't 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.559 let people talk him out of it. He didn't let 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:14.160 his environment hold him back. He kept praying, believing, taking 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.600 steps of faith. He gave birth to everything God put 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.560 in him. Maybe like my father, the odds are against 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.040 you in some area. The medical report doesn't look good, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.560 or your environment is not healthy. Nobody's supporting you. You 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.040 don't have the connections, the resources. Don't talk to yourself 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.240 out of it. Keep reminding yourself. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.360 That you are pregnant. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.080 The seed put in you by your creator has already 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.320 taken root. Doesn't have anything to do with what you 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.800 have or don't have, what family you come from, how 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:48.720 talented you are. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.960 It is a destiny seed. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.080 When you give birth, you're going to go further than 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.760 you ever imagine. Sarah was eighty years old, never had 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.880 a baby. Everywhere she looked it said that she would 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.120 be bearing her whole life. Too bad, you're too old. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.480 It's just impossible. She couldn't find another eighty year old 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.800 woman that it ever had a baby. If she could 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.400 at least found one, she could have said, well, God, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:16.920 you did. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.920 It for her, you can do it for me. She 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.920 couldn't find anyone. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.320 You may look around and think, Joel, I don't know 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.720 anyone that got out of my neighborhood and done something significant. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.880 I don't know anyone that's overcome the illness I'm dealing with, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.200 or nobody in my family has been able to break 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.080 these addictions. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.080 The good news is you can be the first. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.360 You can set the new standard. You can be the 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.800 barrier breaker. God said to Sarah, I will give you 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.400 a son. You will be the mother of nations. Kings 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:51.560 of people will. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.640 Come out of you. Here's an eighty year old woman 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:55.680 that's barren. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:02.000 She's living in the desert, no medical procedures, no infertility treatments. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.680 Yet God says, you have kings in you. You have 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:06.720 nations in you. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.160 He was saying, Sarah, don't let the circumstances fool you. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.920 Don't let your environment talk you out of it. Don't 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.120 let your own thoughts discourage you. You are pregnant with greatness. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.240 God is saying the same thing to you. You have 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.120 kings in you. You have greatness in you. You are 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:30.680 pregnant with success, pregnant with talent, pregnant with your destiny. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.600 The prophet Joel said, to wake up the mighty men, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.240 wake up the mighty women. I'm here to wake up 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.400 your dreams. Wake up your talents, Wake up your potential. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.520 Wake up what God put in you. You may have 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.400 let some circumstances convince you that it's never gonna happen, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.880 But I believe you're gonna start feeling some kicking on 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.800 the inside. That baby, that dream, that promise is still 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.560 alive in you. You You better get ready. You're gonna 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.439 give birth to something that's gonna take you further than 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.800 you could ever imagine. It's gonna thrust you to a 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.560 new level of your destiny. A lady told me how 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.679 she had had a stroke and she'd been in the 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.880 hospital for three weeks and finally was able to come 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.560 back home, and. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:19.760 She was very depressed. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.480 She didn't think she'd ever be able to walk again. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.280 She lost her passion, lost her drive. The scripture talks 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.879 about fighting the good fight of faith. You can't be 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.640 passive and just accept whatever comes along and think that 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.680 that's your lot in life. We all have bad breaks, disappointments. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.359 Those challenges are not there to defeat you. They're there 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.520 to promote you. On the other side is a new 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.960 level of God's goodness. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.560 But you have to do your part and get your 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:51.280 fire back. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.560 One Sunday, she heard me on television talking about how 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.040 God wants to restore what's been stolen, how he can 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.119 give you beauty for how you can still live healthy 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.320 and whole. When she heard that, she said, something woke 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.720 up in her spirit, something came alive on the inside. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:16.200 What happened that baby started kicking. She was already pregnant 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.400 with healing. God already had the restoration there. But when 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.919 her spirit came alive, in other words, when she started believing, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.080 that's when things begin to change. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:28.640 Instead of going around. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.800 Thinking I'll never walk again, I'll never get well, she 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.120 started declaring, I am healthy, I am strong, I am 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.480 well able, I am restored against all the odds. Way 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.000 ahead of schedule, she told how she's already walking again, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.800 she's getting stronger, healthier. But it all started when something 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:53.080 woke up in her spirit. Maybe, like her, you've let 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.360 something still your passion. You don't think you could ever 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.760 get well or meet the right person accomplish a dream. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.640 Everything you need is already in you. If you'll stir 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.560 your faith up like she did and get in agreement with. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.120 God, then you will give birth. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.520 To your healing, birth to your dreams, birth to those promises. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.119 Genesis three point fifteen says the seed of the woman 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.879 will bruise the head of the serpent in the garden 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:22.440 of Eden. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.240 You remember how the serpent deceived Eve and brought about 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:27.440 all kinds of trouble. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:32.680 God was saying, in effect, Eve, it's payback time. You're 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.040 going to give birth to something that's going to defeat 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.800 the thing that's tried to defeat you. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.760 Your seed will bruise his head. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.240 Too often we're looking for something from the outside to 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.000 help us overcome, but God has put it. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:50.120 On the inside. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.520 If you'll give birth to what God put in you, 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.840 you won't have to rely on other people. If you'll 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.639 give birth to that dream, that gift, that talent, my Father, 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.200 your gift will make room for you. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:04.920 Your gift will open some new doors. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.359 Or maybe if you'll give birth to that idea, that book, 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:14.639 that talent, then you can deliver yourself from lack and struggling. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.240 Jesus said, out of your belly will flow rivers of 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.399 living water. Your deliverance is not going to come from 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.480 other people. Your promotion, your healing, your breakthrough is going 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:28.240 to come. 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.679 From within you. Out of your belly shall flow rivers. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.879 This is where Sarah almost missed it. She thought the 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.360 promise would come through somebody else. She reasoned it out, 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.320 thinking she was too old. How could she have kings 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.280 and nations in her She was in her eighties, She 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.000 couldn't have a baby. She tried to help God out, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.480 had her husband Abraham sleep with her maid. They had 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.800 a baby, but it wasn't the promised child. God said, Sarah, 0:20:59.040 --> 0:20:59.920 I didn't put. 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.280 The in somebody else. You don't need other people to 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:04.960 deliver you, Sarah. 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.000 I put the promise in you. God is saying the 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.360 same thing to us. You are pregnant with your miracle. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:16.360 You are pregnant with the victory. You don't need other people. 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.200 You don't have to hope they help you, hope they 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.360 like you, hope they give you a good break. Like Sarah, 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.159 it's not gonna come from the outside. It's gonna come 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.800 from the inside. God has already put it in you. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.600 If you'll dare believe that you have what it takes. 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:38.200 Go out each day with expectancy, knowing that you're pregnant. 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:40.080 Then you can deliver yourself. 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:42.959 You will give birth to what God put on the 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.520 inside of you. Paul said it this way in Ephesians. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.439 God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all. We 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.760 can ask or think according to the power that works 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.840 in you. It's not according to the power that works 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.040 in your neighbor, your cousin, your pastor your friend. The 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:04.720 power is working in you. Well, you say, Joel, I 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.439 believe I'm pregnant. I have big dreams. I'm standing on 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.240 God's promises, but everything is coming against me. Seems like 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.000 the more I pray, the worse it gets. I'm doing 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.280 the right thing, but the wrong thing is happening. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.240 Here's the beauty. Pain is a sign that you're about 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:21.879 to give birth. 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:28.480 Trouble, difficulties, being uncomfortable, that's a sign that you're getting closer. 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.320 When Victoria was pregnant with our two children, first couple months, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:34.240 no big deal. 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:35.840 Everything was fine. 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.560 But about seven or eight months in her back started hurting, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.040 her feet started swelling, she couldn't sleep well at night. 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.680 The longer she was pregnant, the. 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:50.159 More uncomfortable she was when she went into labor. I 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.800 was in the delivery room, right next to her bed, 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.680 and she had her hand on my bic app. When 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.280 she would have a contraction, it would hurt so badly. 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:02.879 She would squeeze my arm as hard as she could. 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.400 She would scream. Then I would scream. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:10.320 The closer she got to the birth, the more painful 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:15.040 it was. When everything comes against you, your child's acting up, 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:17.880 trouble at work, set back in your finances. 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.480 Don't get discouraged. You're about to give birth. You're about 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:23.159 to see a promise come to pass. 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.199 In these tough times is when many people abort their 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.840 dreams thinking. I knew it wouldn't work out, Joel. The 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.000 bank turned me down. The medical report wasn't good. I 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:39.000 didn't get the promotion. No, recognize those are labor pains. 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:43.240 You're getting closer. Stay in faith, keep doing the right thing. 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:45.080 The birth is on the way. 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:48.120 There was a young couple out hiking through the woods. 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:52.760 They came upon this large field of wild mushrooms. They 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.800 decided to take some home and cook them. They had 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.560 some friends over that night, and they all ate dinner together. 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:03.120 One of the side issues were these salted mushrooms. At 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:05.920 one point, the family cat came in the room. 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:08.680 She was a large cat that loved to eat. 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.359 The husband grabbed some mushrooms and fed them to the cat, 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:15.560 and she ate them like they were dessert. About an 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.000 hour later, he heard the cat making a strange sound. 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:21.439 He ran in there to check on her, and she 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:25.000 was lying flat on her back, foaming at the mouth 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.520 in intense pain. He called the veterinarian. The doctor said, 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:33.800 what has the cat eaten recently? The man said, wild mushrooms, 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.000 but we've all eaten them too. The doctor said they 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.800 may be poisonous. You better get up to the emergency 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:40.440 room and. 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:41.080 Get checked out. 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:44.080 The man and all of his guests rushed to the 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.919 emergency room. A few hours later, he came back to 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:50.439 his house and went into check on the cat, thinking 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:53.720 that she would be knocked out. Instead, the cat was 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.480 sitting there calmly with the seven kittens. 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:58.240 She had just given birth two. 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:04.119 Sometimes what we think is a setback is really just 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:05.200 labor pains. 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:07.600 That difficulty you're facing. 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:12.600 It's not the end. It's a part of the birthing process. 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:16.040 You're about to step into a new level of your destiny. 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:20.159 Don't be discouraged by the disappointment, the closed door, the 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:20.760 bad break. 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.240 That's a sign you're about to give birth. I read 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:27.000 about a gentleman that was having a tough time paying 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:29.560 his bills. He'd had a rough childhood. 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.480 At the age of two, his father went to the 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:36.119 store to buy groceries and never returned home, left the 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:39.800 mother to raise two small children. In college, he fell 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.680 in love and met his wife. He is so poor 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:45.679 he had to borrow a suit and tie for his wedding. 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:48.480 He and his wife had a newborn baby, and they 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:52.320 were living in this old rundown trailer. He drove a 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:57.000 rusted out car held together with wire and duct tape 0:25:57.080 --> 0:25:59.639 in the summers. During the day, he worked for a 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:04.199 lawn company, making sixty dollars a week. At night, he 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.760 worked as a janitor, cleaning offices. He had a dream 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:10.840 to become a writer, but he couldn't afford a typewriter. 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.080 He borrowed one from a friend and set it up 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:17.560 in his small laundry room. When he wasn't working, he 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:21.960 would spend hour after hour writing fiction. He sent his 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:25.919 stories away to different publishers and agents, but every one 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:29.240 of them was rejected. He didn't even know if people 0:26:29.240 --> 0:26:32.840 were really reading them. He wrote one final story, but 0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:36.560 was so discouraged through it in the trash. His wife 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:39.800 came home, found it crumpled up in the garbage, got 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:42.720 it out, and eventually they sent that story to a 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:47.560 different publisher. This time the publisher responded and offered him 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:51.560 a contract. That story went on to sell over five 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:55.400 million copies. In nineteen seventy six, it was made into 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:58.760 a movie. It became one of the top grossing films 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:02.399 of that year. That young man was Stephen King, one 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:06.400 of the most successful writers of our day. Like him, 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:10.199 some of you are pregnant with a book, pregnant with 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:13.399 a movie, pregnant with the business, may be pregnant with 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:17.200 the charity. You've had disappointments, You tried and it didn't 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:20.119 work out, but you can still feel the kicking on 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:21.280 the inside. 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:22.840 You can't get away from it. 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:25.159 Don't talk yourself out of it. 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:27.119 It's all a part of the process. 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:32.000 Keep trying, keep believing, doing everything you can, and at 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:35.879 the right time you will give birth. The right people 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:39.919 will show up, the right opportunities, the right breaks. You 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:42.480 couldn't make it happen on your own. It was the 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:45.760 hand of God. And what He's put in you is 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:48.800 going to be bigger than you can imagine, better than 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:53.240 you've ever dreamed, more rewarding than you thought possible. Now 0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:57.400 do your part, get your hopes up every morning. Remind 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:03.320 yourself you are pregnant with rejection, failure, disappointments, defeat. You 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:08.000 are pregnant with victory, pregnant with success, pregnant with the 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:10.840 favor of God. And sure you may have had some 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:14.240 bad breaks, but like Sarah, you are not going to 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:17.439 live your life barn. You're not going to die with 0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:20.840 that baby still in you. God has the final say, 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:25.480 and he says a birth is coming. What He's promised 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.960 is on the way. Keep honoring him, keep being your best, 0:28:29.200 --> 0:28:32.520 and I believe and declare you will give birth to 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:36.480 everything God put in you and to become everything God 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:39.000 created you to be in Jesus's name. 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:41.920 If you receive it today, can you say amen? 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:46.280 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:49.200 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:50.720 Would you pray with me? 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:56.840 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:57.600 into my heart. 0:28:58.680 --> 0:29:00.520 I make you my Lord Savior. 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:04.320 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:07.240 got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:10.280 Keep God first place. 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