Programmed For Greatness

0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.120 Always a joy to have you with us. We're praying 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.760 for you, guys. Check out my new book. It's called 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.600 Power Up, a twenty one day action plan to transformative 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.080 and thinking. You can all help you think great thoughts 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.159 and just live a victorious life. But if you can 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.239 check it out on the web, it's so great having 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:16.639 you with us. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.799 Enjoy the podcast. God bless you. It's great to be 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.600 with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.200 us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.320 social media, and you can come visit us in person. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.280 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.040 of our services, and I'd like to start with something 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.960 funny and One day up in Heaven, Satan and Jesus 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.640 were having a contest to see who was better with computers. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.000 After six hours of making spreadsheets and designing web pages, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.840 a thunderstorm knocked the power out. When they rebooted their computers, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.120 Satan started screaming, it's all lost. All my material is gone, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.040 while Jesus quietly walked over and printed his out turned 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.080 it in. Satan complain, it's not fair. He must have cheated. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.800 How come he didn't lose his material? God smiled, and said, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:12.240 Jesus saves say it like you mean it. This is 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.440 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.959 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.840 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.120 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.600 my heart is recepted. I will never be the same. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:33.480 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.760 to you today about program for greatness. There are gifts 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.480 and talents God has put in you that you haven't 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.400 tapped into yet, abilities and potential that at the right time, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.040 just like a gene that's been lying dormant, it will 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.800 open and you will discover things you never knew you had. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.120 But it's easy to think that we've reached our limits. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.360 And this is the family I come from, this is 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.040 my education, this is what I'm good at. We look 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.640 at what we've seen in the past, But what you 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.160 can't see is what God put in you that hasn't 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:14.400 been released. Destiny, genes that haven't opened yet. When you 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.320 come into opportunity that looks over your head, that management 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.400 positioner to start the business, to teach the class, thoughts 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.600 will tell you you can't do that. You're not qualified. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.920 It's too much. But God wouldn't have given you the 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.639 opportunity if he had not already equipped you for what 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.560 you need. The reason it feels over your head is 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:41.240 because there's talent, courage, favor that you haven't seen yet. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.680 It's in you. As you take that step of faith, 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.720 you'll discover that you've already been programmed to do what 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.800 God's asking you to do. God told Jeremiah that he 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.160 was going to be a great prophet, that he would 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.680 speak to nations what Jeremiah was young and insecure. He 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.639 didn't come from a family of prophets, didn't have any 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.680 background of faith. He said, God, I can't do that. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.639 I'm a teenager. Nobody's gonna listen to me. I don't 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.919 have the training, the confidence, the personality. God didn't say, 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.200 I understand, Jeremiah, I must have chosen the wrong person. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.000 You can sit back. I'll find someone else. God wouldn't 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.160 have asked you to do it if you weren't well able. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.880 God answered back something very insightful. He said, Jeremiah, before 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.520 you were formed in the womb, I knew you before 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.160 you were born. I'll ordained you to be a prophet 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.080 to the nations. He was saying, Jeremiah, before you ever 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.960 got here, I already put in you what you needed 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.720 to accomplish your assignment. Already gave you that gift to 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.000 be a prophet to the nations. That gene is already 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.440 programmed to open at the right time. Before you showed 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.920 up on planet Earth, God decided his purpose for you. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.440 He destined for you to accomplish the dreams you had, achieve, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.840 the obstacles you'd overcome, the legacy you would leave. You're 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.880 not here by accidents. Your parents didn't just randomly decide 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.640 to have a baby. God's been thinking about you long 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.200 before you showed up, before you were even in the womb, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.120 before you were a thought in your parents' mind. God 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.080 not only knew you, but he put in you everything 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.320 you need to succeed, to rise higher, to leave your mark. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.719 He programmed in your DNA not to be average get by, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:42.320 settle for mediocrity. He programmed you for greatness. He ordained 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.240 you to break limitations, to set new standards, to go 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:50.840 where no one in your family has gone. Like Jeremiah, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.480 opportunities will come across our path that seemed too big 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.240 we're not qualified. It's never happened in our family. Yet 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.440 deep down you'll feel a sturry, a passion, a faith 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.640 telling you that you can do it. You can speak 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.239 to nations, you can start the business, you can beat 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.440 the cancer, you can write that book. Those are destiny 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.159 genes that have been programmed by your creator that are 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.560 about to open. There is greatness in you. There are 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:29.160 new levels, gifts you haven't tapped into, books, songs, movies, ideas, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.680 creativity that are lying dormant. At the right time, They're 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.039 going to come to life. When you feel that nutting 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.120 you hear that still small voice. Dare to take that 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.080 step of faith. Dare to go further than what's comfortable. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.159 Dare to say no to the fear and yes to 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.800 what God's telling you. Press past the insecurity, all the 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.960 negative thoughts people trying to hold you back. You won't 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:01.680 reach your highest potential by staying comfortable, knowing how it's 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.880 all going to work out, having all the funds, everyone 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:10.080 cheering you on. It's normal at times to feel unqualified, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:15.520 not able, afraid. Those emotions come to us all. But 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.960 the people that step into their greatness do it afraid. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.520 They do it feeling inadequate. They do it without the confidence. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.400 They do it despite the negative chatter. As you make 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.040 a move, then what God put in you will get stronger. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.320 You'll begin to feel more qualified, more confidence, more ability. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.720 God told Jeremiah, you must go where I send you 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.120 and say what I tell you, and do not be 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.000 afraid of the people. Out of all the things God 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.160 could have told Jeremiah in this moment of uncertainty when 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.800 he was trying to decide if he would believe he 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.640 could do something great, God didn't say, don't worry about 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.800 the funds I'll provide. Don't worry about the strategy, how 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.480 it's going to happen. I'll show you. Don't worry about 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.920 the talent, your ability. I'll help you. No, God said, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.040 here's the one you need to focus on. Do not 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.040 fear the people. One version says, do not be afraid 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.480 of their faces. What people think can keep you from 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.880 your destiny if you allow it. Will they accept me? 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.040 Will they before me? Will they understand me? Will they 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.760 criticize me? If you're focused on that, you'll never get 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.040 off a dead sinner, because the enemy will make sure 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.000 there are people who are not for you. Relatives that say, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.720 you really think you can start that business coworkers, I 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.520 don't see how you can teach that class people to 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.560 speak doubt, bring fear and uncertainty, tune all that out. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.520 They don't know what God put in you. They weren't 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.120 there before you were formed in your mother's womb. They 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.200 can't feel what you're feeling. They didn't hear what God 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.600 whispered to you in the night. Don't be surprised if 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.320 they say you a prophet to the nations. I don't 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.880 think so. You build that orphanage, you live in that 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.680 nice neighborhood, you lead your department in cells, start that business, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.280 break that dysfunction. I don't see how they don't have 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.440 to see. It's not up to them. This is between 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.000 you and God. This is the purpose that he placed 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.040 in you before you showed up. God went on to say, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.200 for I will be with you, and I will take 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.400 care of you. When you take these steps of faith. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.360 You're not going alone. The Most High God is with you. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.040 He will fight your battlems. He will give you wisdom 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.080 to know what to do. He will bring talent out 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.880 that you didn't know you had. He will make ways 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.760 where you don't see your way. You and God are 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.600 a majority. One angel in the Old Testament defeated one 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.680 hundred and eighty six thousand of the enemies of Hezekiah. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.520 Who can withstand our God? Who can stop what he 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.520 has purposed for your life? When you do what He's 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.360 asking you to do, there is a force behind you 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.000 that you can't explain, A power that causes you to 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.400 overcome what should hold you back, A favor that opens doors, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.400 brings the right people, that propels you into your destiny. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.040 Jeremiah felt this faith rising up, and instead of talking 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.480 to himself out of it and staying focused on all 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.400 his insecurities, he made the decision to speak to nations. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.400 When he did, the scripture says God touched his mouth 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.800 and said, from now on, I'm giving you the words 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.440 to speak today. I'm appointing you as a prophet to 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:48.120 the nation. That was a destiny moment. That calling that 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.360 God put in Jeremiah before he was born had laid dormant. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.240 It was there. But when he pressed past his doubt 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.319 and took this step of faith, that destiny gene open. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.720 That's when God touched his mouth. When he made a move, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.840 God made a move. There are destiny genes in you 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:12.000 right now, things that God has ordained you to accomplish 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.600 from before you were born. He's already put the talent, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.160 the wisdom, the favor, the courage. It's already in you. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.920 What you're facing may seem impossible too much, but the 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.440 way you know it's from God is its way over 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.240 your head. If you can accomplish it in your own strength, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.600 then it's not a destiny gene. What I'm talking about 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.760 are things that are too big for you. You don't 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.480 think you have the talent, the courage, the funds, the connections. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.800 Every thought will tell you play it safe. You better 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.920 stay in that boat. Don't stretch, don't believe, don't get 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.760 your hopes up. That's for people that have more talent, 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.959 more beauty, more courage. No, that's something God has already 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:59.679 programmed you to become. Now, let's get in agreement with God. God. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.360 I believe there is greatness in me. I believe I 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.840 can do what you call me to do. I can 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.400 speak to nations. I can lead my company. I can 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.960 write that book you put in my spirit. I can 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.319 break this dysfunction. I can set a new standard for 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:21.320 my family. When you believe that activates supernatural power. That's 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.400 when God will touch your mouth, so to speak, and 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.120 you'll discover new talent, new courage, new ideas, doors opening 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.920 that you couldn't open, people being good to you, and 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.960 they don't even know why. It's the hand of God. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.960 Bring it about what He purposed for your life before 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:44.160 you were born. The greatness is already in you, the success, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.280 the talent, the dreams, the legacy. God has already programmed 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:53.360 it into your destiny. But too often, like Jeremiah, when 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.840 we feel something stirring, something that seems over our head, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:00.240 we discount who we are. We look at every thing 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.920 we don't have, and we talk ourselves out of it. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.160 Jeremiah said, God, I'm too young. I don't have the experience, 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.360 the training. I don't come from the right family. God 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.760 knew all that when he called Jeremiah. We look at 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.239 where we are, but God knows what he put in us. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.960 We can't see the genes that are about to open. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.600 We don't know the talent, the ability that's about to 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.320 come out. This is what takes faith. You have to 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.360 believe not only that God can do anything, but that 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.400 He's put in you everything you need to fulfill your purpose. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.240 They feel like at times that you're lacking. It's over 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.000 your head. That's a sign that a destiny gene is 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.559 about to open. God will never ask you to do 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.600 something and then not give you the ability to do 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.240 it if it seems like too much. That means greater 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:59.240 ability is coming, greater wisdom, greater resources, greater favor. God's 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.160 about to touch your mouth, so to speak, and cause 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.400 you to excel and go where you've never gone. Heard 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.360 about this minister Before the service, he handed a man 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.120 one hundred dollar bill and asked him to put it 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.800 secretly in his wife's bible. During his message, the minister 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.640 asked the woman to stand up. He said, do you 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.920 trust me? She said, yes, I do. He said, will 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.600 you do what I ask? She said, yes, I will. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.200 He said, would you please open your bible and give 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.320 me a one hundred dollar bill. She said, I'm so sorry, Pastor, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.640 I don't have a hundred dollar bill. He said it again. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.200 Do you trust me? Yes, I trust you, Then please 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.800 open your bible and give me one hundred dollar bill. Frustrated, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.120 she opened her bible and much to her surprise, she 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.240 saw one hundred dollars. She looked puzzled and said, how 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.480 did it get here? He smiled and said, I put 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.880 it there, and that's the way God is. He'll never 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.920 ask you for some without first putting it in you. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:07.640 When you feel that calling, you hear that still small 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:12.520 voice whispering something that seems over your head. You may 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.480 not think you have the wisdom, the strength, the skill, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.080 the talent. But if you'll take that step, you'll discover 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.280 that God has put things in you that you never 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.560 knew you had. He's already ordained you before you were 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.560 formed in your mother's wound, to accomplish much more than 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.400 you think. See. I never thought there was a minister 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.880 in me. I didn't think I could get up here 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:40.080 in pastor. I was satisfied behind the scenes and felt 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.800 fulfilled doing the television production making my father look good. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.880 He asked me many times during those seventeen years if 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.360 i'd get up and speak for him, and that was 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.800 always so odd to me. I thought I wouldn't know 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.320 what to say. I'm quiet and reserved. I like being 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.640 in the background. I always told him no. But when 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:04.200 my passed, suddenly I had the desire to pasture the church. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.240 This faith rose up in me, and I knew I 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.080 was supposed to do it, But like Jeremiah, I thought 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.520 of all the reasons I shouldn't. I'm not qualified, I 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.280 don't have the training, I don't have a dynamic personality 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.760 like my father. But all those things I thought I 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.440 didn't have, like that one hundred dollars bill, I discovered 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.640 God had already put in me. I had the talent, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.640 I had the courage, the wisdom, the favor, the right personality, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.680 And for thirty six years that gene was lying dormant. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.200 God had put it in me before I was formed 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.360 in my mother's womb. There was a specific time for 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:47.040 it to open. When it did, I discovered there was 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.760 a minister in me. There was an author in me, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.360 an encourager in me, a leader in me. I thought 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.160 I'd do television production the rest of my life and 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.760 be at that same level, and that was all fine. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.840 But God had greater things He had already destined me 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.360 to do. You may think that you've reached your limits 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.400 and you're satisfied where you are. Can I encourage you? 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.640 God has put things in you that you can't even 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:18.960 imagine right now. There are gifts you haven't tapped. Into talent, ideas, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.600 business ministry. It's lying dormant. But when you come into 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.800 one of these destiny moments, that gene is going to 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.320 open and you're going to step into levels you've never dreamed. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.120 If you would have told me back in my twenties 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.280 that one day I'd be a minister and on television 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.240 and I would write books and we would have church 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.920 in the former Compact Center, I would have said, you're 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.160 on the wrong planet. I couldn't see it. This was 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.040 more than I could imagine. You have no idea what 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:53.360 God has already programmed for you. Here's the beauty. This 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.160 is not something you have to strive and manipulate force 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.760 to happen, step on people to get ahead. Now, just 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.920 keep honoring God being your best. Each day you will 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.600 come into these destiny moments where what He's ordained for 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.719 you from before you were born will thrust you further 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.680 than you ever thought possible. Jeremiah went on to say, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.560 your word, oh Lord, is like fire shut up in 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.000 my bones. Here. A little earlier he was saying, I'm 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.560 too young, i can't speak, I'm unqualified. Now he's saying, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.879 I've got fire shut up in me. I've got talent, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:37.600 anointing power that I never realized. I wonder what's shut 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.240 up in you right now? What has God already programmed 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.760 you with that you have no idea? Books shut up 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.240 in you, Talent shut up in you, a business shut 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:53.000 up in you. Resources, leadership, courage, wealth shut up in you. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.520 God has already ordained it to happen. You've been faithful, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.879 You've done the right thing when it was hard. I 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.960 believe God is about to release what's been shut up. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:09.920 Release the talent in you, release the courage, release the success. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.600 You're gonna step into resources that you never dreamed you 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.439 would handle on doors you never expected to open, Talent 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.600 you didn't know was in you. It's not gonna be ordinary. 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.840 It's not gonna be common. It's gonna be something your 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.560 family has never seen, something that will cause you to 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.200 stand out, to impact the community, to leave your mark. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.280 A friend of mine came here from another country when 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.680 he was a little boy with his family and they 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.160 didn't speak English, and his family, the parents, they did 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.959 their best to provide, but they were very poor and 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.359 had little education. It's a young man. He got a 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.719 job at a restaurant as a dishwasher, making minimum wage 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.320 and looked like that would be his lot in life. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.160 That he was at a disadvantage. He shouldn't expect anything more. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.160 But you don't know what God has shut up in you. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.240 You can't judge your future based on what you've seen 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.440 in the past. There are some destiny genes already scheduled 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.280 to open. This young man worked faithfully in the restaurant 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.360 for fourteen years. The owner decided that he wanted to retire, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.800 and he asked my friend if he wanted to buy 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.960 the restaurant. He was so puzzled he thought, I can't 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.280 buy it. I'm working in the kitchen. My family doesn't 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.479 have any funds, and I don't have any credit. The 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.800 owner said, you don't need any of that. I'm going 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.400 to loan you the money. You can pay me back 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.040 over time. He sold him the restaurant at half the value. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.520 It should have taken him ten years to pay off 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.439 the loan, but business was so good he paid it 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.040 off in six months. He now owns it free and clear. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:53.160 He decided to expand. Today he has a dozen restaurants 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.320 all over town. He never dreamed working as a dishwasher 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.879 that one day he'd be that successful glass. You don't 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.880 know what God has shut up in you. There are 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:09.480 some businesses that are going to take off, some books, movies, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.399 charities that are going to come out of you. The 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.080 scripture says, out of your belly shall flow rivers of 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.879 living water, not out of your neighbor, your cousin, your boss, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:25.199 your pastor. That's all good. But God has talent, potential, ideas, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.640 favor that's going to come out of you, Paul said 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:33.440 in Ephesians. God is able to do exceeding abundantly above 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.800 all we can ask or imagine. Here's the key. According 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.120 to the power that works in you, It's already in you. 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.800 God has already programmed you to leave your mark, programmed 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.840 you to set a new level, programmed you to excel 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:54.520 in business, programmed you to impact your community. Had fires 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.440 shut up in your bones, is about to be released. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.159 God told Abraham and Sarah they were going to have 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.720 a baby, but they were both way too old. Sarah 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.680 had already gone through the change of life, and there 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.240 was no way logically speaking. But sometimes God will put 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.399 things in your spirit that don't make sense to your mind. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.520 He'll give you a promise that defies the odds. When 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.720 Sarah first heard it, it was so far out she laughed. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.240 She said, how could an old woman like me and 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.280 a worn out man like Abraham have a child? She 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.680 could have left Abraham out of that. In the natural 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:38.920 it was impossible. But God is supernatural. What he's already 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.199 programmed for your life is not going to happen just 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:48.399 by talent, your education, determination, by ordinary means. That's all good. 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.440 But what God has for you is going to take 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:56.359 supernatural power, supernatural favor, and supernatural healing. It's not going 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.800 to be ordinary, not what people expect. It's going to 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:04.480 be uncommon, God doing what only he can do. And 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:08.280 God said in Genesis seventeen, I will give Sarah a son. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.719 She will be the mother of nations, Kings of people 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.600 will come out of her. Here Sarah was doubting, discouraged, 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.880 thinking there was no way she had been bearing her 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.760 whole life, and in those days, if you didn't give 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.720 your husband a child, you were looked down on. She 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.639 felt shame and like she wasn't good enough. God showed 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:33.040 up and said, Sarah, I'm not just going to give 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.760 you a child. You have kings in you, you have 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.800 nations in you. I put royalty on the inside. He 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.240 was saying, Sarah, you have something you can't see right now, 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.440 something bigger than you can imagine. Yes, you've been through disappointments. 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.760 You weren't able to have children. But if you only 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.840 knew what I programmed for you, there's a destiny Jene 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:00.000 about to open. Nations are going to come out of you. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.640 Royalty is shut up in your bones. But like Sarah, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:08.880 we look at the circumstances, the bank account, the medical report, 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:13.240 my education, my position at were Joe, I don't see 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.000 how I can rise any higher, ever be anything more 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:20.200 than I am right now. How do you know there 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.240 are not kings in you? How do you know what 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:27.199 God has programmed you for when He formed you before 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.359 you were in your mother's wound. There are things He 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.359 has shut up in you that you cannot comprehend right now, 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.960 things that don't make sense. You can't own restaurants, you're 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.600 working as a dishwasher. You can't pastor the church. You're 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:47.840 too quiet, Jeremiah, you can't speak to nations. You're too young, Sarah. 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:51.520 You can't have a child. You're ninety years old. God 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:54.240 has put things in you that are going to defyde 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:58.200 the odds that people can't explain. God loves to do 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:02.600 things far and beyond what we can accomplish. That way, 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.520 he gets all the credit. All we can say is, 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:08.560 look what the Lord has done. Worshiping in the former 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:13.119 Compact Center. This was programmed to be ours before the 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:17.760 building was ever built. My mother healthy forty three years 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.080 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. That doesn't make sense. 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:25.160 God stepped in, says, there's healing shut up in your bones. 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:29.720 Let me do what medicine cannot do. Ninety years old 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.840 and Sarah had a son. She became the mother of nations, 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.040 and kings came out of her. You may have gone 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.960 through some bearing years, things haven't worked out, and now 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:45.040 thoughts tell you that you'll never accomplish the dream, never 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:49.159 meet the right person, never get well. Don't believe those lies. 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:52.480 There are kings in you. There are things you can't 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:59.400 see right now that are shut up in your destiny. Healing, promotions, spouses, children, 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:04.760 book books, business abundance. At the right time, like she did, 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:08.959 You're gonna step into that destiny moment where God releases 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:13.240 what's been shut up. The scripture says time and chance 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:18.280 come together for every person. God causes his purpose to 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:22.919 collide with your destiny. When it does. Supernatural things happen 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:26.360 a baby when you were told you couldn't have children, 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.960 your business takes off. The right people track you down. 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:34.720 You're having church in the former basketball arena. Well, Joel, 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.199 I don't think it's gonna happen for me. I've had 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:40.960 a lot of disappointments, a lot of bad breaks. Sarah 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:44.919 was bearing for ninety years. It's not too late. What 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:49.840 God started he's going to finish. Sometimes we let our mistakes, 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:53.119 gil Man, I should have done better. I missed my chance. 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:58.160 It didn't go away. God's calling on your life is irrevocable. 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:02.080 He didn't change his mind, and what he programmed into 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.320 you before you were born is still going to happen. 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:11.000 Those destiny genes are already scheduled to open. Now. When 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:15.360 opportunities come that seem over your head, like Jeremiah, you'll 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:19.160 be tempted to make excuses and shrink back. Like Sarah, 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:22.199 it's easy to laugh and discount it. Why don't you 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:26.000 get in agreement with God? God, I believe you programm 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.440 me for greatness that before I showed up, You put 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:33.240 purpose and destiny in me, things so big that I 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:36.679 can't accomplish on my own. But God, I believe you 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:40.040 will make it happen. Stay in this attitude of faith. 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:44.439 If you do this, I believe and declare the fire 0:26:44.640 --> 0:26:47.560 shut up in your bones is about to be released. 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:52.160 Dreams coming to pass. It looked impossible, gifts coming out 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:55.920 that you didn't know you had, favor that catapults you ahead, 0:26:56.359 --> 0:27:01.200 healing when the medical report says there's no way connections 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:06.000 the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name and if 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:10.520 you receive it, can you say amen? Today? 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