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Recognize Who You Are

Joel Osteen
January 8, 2023 31m 51s

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Don’t let a distorted image of who you are keep you from your purpose. When God created you, He gave you everything you would need to reach your destiny.  Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit  JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.640 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.680 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:38.400 the ministry. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.840 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.440 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.480 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.200 your life. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.320 Oh God, bless you. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.240 It's great to be with you today, and I hope. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.600 You'll stay connected with us during the week through. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.600 Our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.080 can come visit us in person. We love to have 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.640 you be a part of one of our services, but 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.880 I like to start with something funny, and I should 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.000 mention this was sent to me by a woman. But 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.519 according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.280 both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.959 male reindeer lose their antlers at the start of winter 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.040 in early November. Female reindeer keep their antlers all the 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.040 way till spring. This means all of Santa's reindeer, from 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.920 Rudolph to Blitzen had to be female. She goes on 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.880 to say, we should have known that only a woman 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.000 could drag around a fat man wearing a red velvet 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:39.280 suit all over. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.560 The world in one night and not get lost. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.120 I do not receive that at all, But anyway, we 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.640 go say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.440 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.000 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.840 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.120 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.520 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.320 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.680 about recognizing who you are. It's easy to go through 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.280 life being defined by how we were raised, what we 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.280 saw model growing up, what people have said, or mistakes 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:23.120 we've made. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.240 We end up. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:30.440 Wearing these labels average, not talented, unattractive, too short. This 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.280 distorted image is keeping us from who God created us 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:34.639 to be. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.119 How you see yourself will determine how high you will go. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.880 And it's possible to live your whole life and never 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.880 recognize who you really are. The scripture says, before we 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.120 were formed in our mother's womb, God knew us. Before 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.880 you showed up on planet Earth, God already decided who 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:56.480 you would be. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.240 He already laid out a purpose for your life. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.520 You came through your mother, she gave you birth, but 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.880 you came from Almighty God, He gave you life. God 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.760 didn't create anyone average. He calls you a masterpiece. He 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.960 put greatness in you. There is potential on the inside 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.760 that you have not yet tapped into. But if this 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:25.040 is going to happen, you can't see yourself as weak, lacking, inadequate. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.920 Tune all that out and get in agreement with God. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.800 How about seeing yourself as a masterpiece, one of a kind. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:38.800 Valuable instead of lacking unqualified. No, I'm equipped, empowered. I 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.560 have everything I need to fulfill my assignment. Don't let 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.760 a distorted image of who you are keep you from 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.560 your purpose. When I was twenty years old, I went 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.279 to India with my father. It was my first time 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.240 being overseas. One evening, I was sitting on the beach 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.719 by myself, watching the sun go down. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.640 It was so beautiful, almost surreal. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:07.479 Miles of pure white sand, swaying palm trees, glistening blue water, 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.200 and the sun was huge on the horizon just about 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:11.600 to set. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.159 I remember the distinct smells, the. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.640 Salt water from the ocean spray, and the smoke from 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.839 people grilling on the beach, and the marijuana from the 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.279 hippies getting high. The longer I stayed, the better I felt. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:31.279 But it looked like a postcard. I had never seen 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.320 anything so magnificent, and the thought came to my mind 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.160 about how God is such an amazing painter, such an 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:40.359 amazing artist. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.920 As I was sitting there and. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.560 Just reflecting, thinking about my life, I heard God ask 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.280 me something, not out loud, but just an impression in 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:49.839 my spirit. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.080 He said, Joel, you think. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.200 This is a beautiful picture, do you I said, yes, God, 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.760 it's a magnificent picture. He said, what do you think 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.000 my most pride painting would be my most incredible creation. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.080 I thought about it a moment, said, God, it must 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.640 be this. This is beautiful. He said, no, it's not 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.000 this sunset. Earlier that year I had been in the 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.200 Rocky Mountains and they were so beautiful. I said, I 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.880 bet it's the Rocky Mountains. He said no, it's not that. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.360 I thought, what could it be? The Grand Canyon, the 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.599 Milky Way, the Solar System. He said no, Joel, my 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.040 most prized creation, the one I'm the most proud of, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.760 is you. I thought me, it couldn't be me. I'm 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:37.080 just average, nothing special about me. He said, Joel, you 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.080 don't understand. When I made the solar System, the Sun, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.000 the oceans, that was all good. I'm proud of that. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.839 But when I made you, I breathed my life into you. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.000 I created you in my own image. I put my 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.719 DNA on the inside. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.000 Don't discount who you are. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:07:00.600 Don't let life, people, disappointments convince you that you're just average, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.000 nothing special about you. You have royal blood flowing through 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.840 your veins. God has crowned you with his favor. He 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.320 doesn't call the Rocky Mountains a masterpiece, doesn't call the 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.160 solar system a masterpiece. He didn't call that magnificent sunset 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.040 a masterpiece. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.480 He calls you a masterpiece. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.320 He calls you his most prized creation. Now the question 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.040 is what do you call in yourself? If you see 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.840 yourself as ordinary, not that talented. I don't have a 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:37.240 good personality. I'm dealing with these weaknesses. That distorted image. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.600 Is going to keep you from shining. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.679 What a tragedy to go through life and never discover 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.320 who you really are? Are you wearing labels that are 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.320 limiting you? Average, not talented, dysfunctional? 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.000 Who put those labels on you? Who told you that 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:54.920 was who you are? 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.840 Quit letting other people define you and go back to 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.800 who God says you are. A People will tell you 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.200 you're not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.800 not talented enough. Why don't you take that label off 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:13.720 and put on a new one, fearfully and wonderfully made masterpiece, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.160 one of a kind, strong, talented. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.000 Successful judges. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.280 Chapter six, the Midianites had surrounded the people of Israel. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.640 There was a young man named Gideon that was hiding 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.920 in a wine press. He was afraid and intimidated. While 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.360 he was hiding, an angel came into the wine press 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.880 and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you. I 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.600 can imagine Gideon looking around, thinking, who's he talking about. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.360 I'm not a mighty hero. I'm afraid I'm hiding. God 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.120 was saying, in effect, Gideon, you don't recognize who you are. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:52.760 You're wearing all. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.520 These labels, insecure, weak, not enough. But I came to 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.040 tell you who you really are. You're a mighty hero. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.640 You have courage, strength, talent that you haven't tapped into. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.200 The angel went on to say, you are to lead 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.920 the Israelites against the Midianites. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.080 Gideon answered back, how can I rescue Israel? I come 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.360 from the smallest tribe, and I'm the least one in 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.040 my family. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:21.240 Here. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.440 God had just called him a mighty hero. He just 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.480 told him he was going to do something great. But 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.600 Gideon let how he was raised define him, what family 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:36.200 he came from, His education, his size, his perception of 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.559 who he is is keeping him from becoming who God 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.000 called him to be. If the Angel were here today, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.520 he would look at you and say, mighty hero, the 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:47.520 Lord is with you. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 But how many of us would do like Gideon? 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:51.599 Not me. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.440 I'm not a mighty hero. I come from an ordinary family. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.280 I'll never do something great. I can't defeat this giant. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:00.719 I don't have the courage, the. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:01.920 Skill, the expertise. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.840 Don't let your wrong perception keep you from your greatness. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:08.600 Get in agreement with God. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:14.240 Take off all those negative labels, unqualified, wrong family, intimidated. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.840 How you see yourself is going to set the limits 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.840 for your life. And Gideon finally changed his thinking. He 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.000 got a new image of who he was, and he 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.160 went out and defeated the Midianites. He saved the people 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:32.640 of Israel. But sitting in that wine press, afraid, feeling inferior, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.080 he never dreamed we would be talking about him today. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.720 He never dreamed he would become a hero of faith. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.040 If the Angel had not shown up to speak to 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.360 his destiny, to tell him who God created him to be, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.720 he would have lived and died and never discovered who 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:55.280 he really was. Maybe God sent me like that angel 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.520 to tell you who you really are. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.640 You are not what people say say you are. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.400 You're not limited by how you were raised. You're not 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.319 what your feelings say you are. Your feelings don't always 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:13.280 tell the truth. You may feel weak, not valuable, not qualified, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.920 but don't let your feelings determine your identity. Feelings are fickle, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.560 Feelings will come and go. You have to go back 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.520 to what your creator says. He calls you a mighty hero. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.800 He calls you a burier breaker, a giant killer, a 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:35.400 masterpiece of prize possession. I can imagine in the Wine Press, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.360 Gideon praying for God to send a great leader, believing 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.160 for the right. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:40.960 Person to show up. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.480 God, send us a deliver send us someone strong, talented, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.720 with your favor. He didn't realize he was the one 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.200 he was praying for. He was the answer he was 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:58.000 asking God for now. I wonder if, like Gideon, you're 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.200 the one you've been praying for. You're the one to 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.520 do great things, to set a new standard, to take 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.080 your family to a new level. But perhaps you don't 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.160 recognize who you are. When we're always looking to others, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:17.240 always counting on someone else, it's because we're overlooking what 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.520 God put in us. There is greatness in you, There 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:22.920 is leadership in you. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.240 There is talent, wisdom, creativity. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.560 Don't overlook yourself, don't discount who you are thinking. Everyone 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.080 else is so talented. They can deliver us from this army. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.719 They can get me out, they can go further. No, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.640 God has destined you to do something awesome. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.760 He's destined you to leave your mark. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.200 When God told Abraham and Sarah they were going to 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.480 have a baby, they were both way too old in 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.960 the natural. It was impossible. Years went by and no 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.600 sign of a child. So Sarah told Abraham to sleep 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:58.280 with her maid. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.160 That way they could have a baby. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.720 They had a child through Hagar, but that wasn't the 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.679 promised child. God said to Sarah, in effact, I didn't 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.480 put the promise in someone else. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.120 I put the promise in you. Sarah was discounting herself. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.120 I'm too old. There's no way I can have a 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.400 baby at this age. That's impossible. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.640 As long as she saw herself as baron, not able 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.319 to have children, she was limiting her destiny. She had 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.800 to start seeing herself as a mother, seeing that baby 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.480 in her arms, when she changed her perception of who 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.800 she was, when she quit counting on other people to 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.800 make it happen, When she believed I'm the one to 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.679 give birth to this child, That's when she conceived and 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:49.200 gave birth to baby Isaac at ninety years old. God 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.840 will put promises in your heart that seem impossible, and 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.000 thoughts will tell you all. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.440 The reasons it's not going to happen. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.880 If you look at it only in the natural, you'll 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.160 talk yourself out of it. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.280 How do you know you're not a Sarah. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.560 That God's going to do something out of the ordinary, uncommon. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.960 How do you know you're not a Gideon, a mighty hero, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.640 someone that will take your family. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:13.280 Where they've never been. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.120 It's easy thing, Well, Joel, that's not who I am. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:21.760 As for someone younger, more talented, more influential, more attractive. No, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.880 God put the promise in you, not someone else. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.480 You have to do like Gideon, do like Sarah. Recognize 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.200 who you are. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.720 You're a person of destiny, You're a mighty hero, you 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.760 have the favor of God. You've been raised up for 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:38.840 such a time as this. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.000 Don't discount who you are. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.680 It's good to celebrate others, but you need to recognize 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:51.000 you're gifted, you're talented, you're valuable, You're fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.560 A friend of mine grew up in a small town 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.720 in Kentucky, and they were very poor and didn't have. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:57.480 Too much at all. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.760 As a little boy, he always had a desire to 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.640 help children in need. He saw on television how you 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.000 could support a hungry child in another country for fifteen 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:08.800 dollars a month. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.360 Well, he didn't have any money, but at. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.680 Eight years old he started mowing lawns in the neighborhood 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:15.560 so he could help. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.840 He had such a burden for these children. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.400 Well, by the grace of God, he was able to 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.280 go to college, and he went on to medical school 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.320 and became very successful in his practice. All the while 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.920 he was still doing what he could to take care 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.520 of children. One of his medical suppliers heard about it, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.640 and they started donating medicines, vaccines, antibiotics. A shoe company 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.800 donated one hundred thousand shoes to him. God so large 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.680 he had to rent a warehouse to hold it all. Today, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.600 our friends doctor Todd and Sue Prise have donated over 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:54.000 a billion dollars in supplies and medicines to children around 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:54.480 the world. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.400 He told how from the time he was. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.280 A little boy, he always prayed that God would send 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.360 a wealthy person to help those children in need. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.240 He said, Joel, I never. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.800 Realized I was the person I was praying for. He 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:14.160 was the answer to his own prayer. Sometimes we don't 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.280 recognize who we are. We have all this potential, these 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.680 God given dreams, abilities, but often our circumstances, other people, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.720 our own thoughts tell us we're ordinary. We can't do 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.640 anything significant. So we go through life with little dreams, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.880 feeling unqualified, praying that someone else will make a difference, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.320 someone else will push our family forward. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.880 I'm saying you're the one that you're praying for. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.320 You're the one that can leave your mark. You have 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:50.480 greatness in you, you have ideas, creativity, There is favor 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.680 on your life. There are doors God will open that 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.760 will thrust you further. You may not see how it 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.560 can happen. Every boy says, no, you're limited, you're stuck. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.040 That giant's too big, that dream is too great. That's okay. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.680 That's when God will step in. That's when he'll breathe 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.400 in your direction, give you favor ability, blessings that take 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.520 you where you can't go on your own. It's significant 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.639 that the Angel said to Gideon, mighty hero, the Lord 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.119 is with you. He could have just said, get in. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.520 God wants you to go deliver the Israelites. God knew 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.160 he had to convince Gideon to see himself the right way. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.760 He had to help him discover who he really was, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.000 a mighty hero. As long as he saw himself as weak, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.120 limited from the wrong family, we wouldn't be talking about him. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:43.879 Don't miss your. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.920 Destiny because you don't recognize who you are. After college, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.399 I came back to Lakewood and worked seventeen years behind 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.680 the scenes doing the television production. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:56.880 My father tried many. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.480 Times to get me up to speak, but I didn't 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.840 think this was in me. I thought I wouldn't know 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.480 what to say. I can't speak in front of people. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.119 I'm too quiet, too reserved. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.960 But when my father passed in nineteen ninety nine, I 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.920 knew I was supposed to step up and pasture the church. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:14.840 I felt it so strongly. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:20.160 But these fears and insecurities came louder than ever. Tan Joel, 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.040 you don't know how to minister. Nobody's going to listen 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:24.600 to you. You're going to get up there and make 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.119 a fool of yourself. All these voices were trying to 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.720 push me down limit my potential. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:32.720 Convinced me that I. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.320 Wasn't smart enough, talented enough, experienced enough. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.560 Like Gideon, I had to make a decision. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.680 Am I going to sit here and let my fears 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.919 and doubts talk me out of stepping up? 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.120 Or Am I going to believe what God says. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.399 About me, that I'm a mighty hero, that I'm strong 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.159 in the Lord, that I can do all things through Christ. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.240 There was a battle taking place in my mind over 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:58.920 who I was. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:18:59.760 Going to become. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.720 I overheard people talking, He's not as good as his father. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:05.639 It'll never make it with Joel. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.600 Was I going to be what people said, what my 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.000 doubts said, what my feelings said, or was I going 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.200 to believe I am who God says I am. I'm 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.560 a masterpiece, I'm valuable, I'm talented, I'm well able. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.120 I took that step of faith. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.240 And never dreamed where God would take me. I thought 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.640 I knew who I was, but I'm still. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:29.680 Discovering who I am. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.680 I've learned once you think you know, God will take 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.920 you higher. He'll trust you with more. He's taken you 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:41.080 from glory to glory. In the Scripture, there was a 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.720 young man named maphibus Chef. He was the grandson of 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.560 King Saul, the son of Jonathan David's best friend. He 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.360 was born into royalty, destined to one day take the throne, 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.119 but when he was five years old, his grandfather and 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.439 father were killed in a battle. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:00.320 On the same day. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.400 After the enemy finished King Saul off, they headed into 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.840 town to find Saul's family. When mamphibis Chef's nurse heard 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:12.040 the news, she grabbed him took off running as fast 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:13.320 as she could, trying to. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:14.760 Spare his life. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:19.200 As she's going downstairs, she tripped and dropped maphibis Cheff. 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.840 He fell so hard that both of his legs were broken. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:27.080 He became crippled and would never walk again. He ended 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.879 up living in hiding in a place called Lodobar. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.800 It's one of the poorest, most run down. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.600 Cities of that day. Here he's the grandson of the king. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.159 He had grown up in the palace in Royalty, but 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.760 now he's living in the slums, barely surviving. When we 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:49.960 go through disappointments, loss, bad breaks, it's easy to forget 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:54.080 who we are and let that become our identity. I've 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:58.280 been dropped, Joel, I've been hurt, I've been betrayed. I 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.360 have a good excuse to be this way, But what 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.919 you've been through doesn't change who you are. You are 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.840 still royalty, you are still a masterpiece. 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.800 You are still a child of the Most High God. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.320 He's promised to give you beauty for those ashes, to 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.520 pay you back double for the unfair things. But you 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.880 have to get your passion back, You have to get 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.200 your vision back. The enemy would love for that one 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.760 bad break to define you to where you see yourself 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.040 as a victim. Nothing goods in my future. Let me 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:34.640 just endure life. No payback is coming. God saw what happened, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.040 He saw who left you, He saw what you didn't get. 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.679 He's a god of justice. He's going to make it 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.240 up to you. Years went by. Now I'm a phibis 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:45.600 Chef is a grown man. 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.200 One day, King David was thinking about his good friend Jonathan, 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.000 how much he loved him and how much he missed him. 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.960 He asked his staff if any of Jonathan's relatives were 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:57.640 still alive. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.200 They said, yes, he has a son, but he's crippled. 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:03.160 They just said, go find him. 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.439 The King's men showed up in the slums of Lodo 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.560 bar knocked on his door sternly. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:09.720 He's alarmed. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:14.200 He scoots over and opens the door very slowly. When 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:18.040 he sees the officials, his heart sinks, singing, old man, 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.720 they finally found me. I'm in big trouble, the main 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.480 leader says to him, a Phiblis chef, the king is looking. 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.560 For You can't walk. They have to pick him up 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.760 and carry him to the palace. You can imagine what's 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:33.000 going on in his mind. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.880 His grandfather, King Saul, tried to kill David through spears 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:38.479 at David. 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.400 He chased him through the desert. They bring him before David. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:46.359 The first thing the phibis chef says is why would 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:50.840 you even bother with a dead dog like me? Notice 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:56.280 how he saw himself not valuable, unworthy, a victim. I 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.280 don't deserve anything. Look what I've been through. I'm at 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:03.840 a disadvanta when in reality he was the grandson of 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.639 the king. He was royalty just because someone dropped him. 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.919 That didn't change his name. He didn't suddenly not become 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:18.159 King Saul's grandson. The problem was he let life change 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:22.119 his name. He let that bad break define his identity. 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:23.800 He forgot who he was. 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:28.639 I can see him trembling with fear, so worried about 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:29.880 what David's going to do. 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.879 But David said to him, in effect, Maphibishaff. 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:36.400 I'm not here to harm you. I'm here to remind 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:40.840 you who you are, your royalty. You're the grandson of 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:44.920 the king. Your father was my best friend. From now on, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.400 you're going to live in the palace with me. Every night, 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.240 you will sit at my table and have dinner. All 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:54.239 the land that belonged to your grandfather, I'm giving it 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:58.200 back to you. I can see ma Phibis Schaff wiping tears. 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:02.840 His face begins to he can't believe it. He says, 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:06.800 you mean I'm not a dead dog. I'm not unworthy, 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:10.239 I'm not washed up. David said, no, that's not who 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:13.199 you are. You don't belong in load of bar. You 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:17.359 belong in the palace with me. Had David not told 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:19.760 him who he was, he would have spent the rest 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.760 of his life in defeat and mediocrity. Now I wonder 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.040 how many of us, kind of like my Fibish chef, 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:30.639 have that dead dog mentality. We see ourselves the wrong way. 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:34.880 We've been through disappointments, we made mistakes. How we think 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:38.480 we're not worthy. We can't expect anything good? Can I 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:38.919 tell you? 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:41.120 The King is looking for you. 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:44.360 God sent me down your path to get you out 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:46.560 a load of bar to remind you. 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:47.280 Who you are. 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:51.800 A masterpiece, a mighty hero, a king's child. 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:53.400 There's royalty in. 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:56.120 Your blood, there's a crown of favor on your head. 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.880 Get rid of that dead dog mentality and start having 0:24:59.880 --> 0:25:06.040 an child of the king mentality, worthy, valuable, blessed, abundant, victorious. 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.960 When my nephew Jackson was a little boy, just a toddler, 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.840 my sister in law, Jennifer Paul's wife would take him 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:17.919 to bed each night after they prayed. She would go 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:22.040 through this long list of super heroes, telling Jackson that's 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:23.280 who he was, just. 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:25.000 To make him feel loved and valuable. 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:29.520 She would say, Jackson, you're my Superman, You're my rescue Hero, 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.560 you're my buzz light Year, you're my lightly McQueen, you're 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:33.600 my power Ranger. 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:34.880 On and on. 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:36.919 He would lie there and just take it all in. 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:40.239 One night, they got home late and she put him 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:42.920 to bed in a hurry and didn't go through the list. 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:45.720 In a few minutes, she heard this voice. 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:49.720 Calling loudly, Mama, Mama. She went rush into his room. Yes, Jackson, 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:50.280 what's wrong? 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:53.920 He said, Mom, you forgot to tell me who I am. 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:58.520 Too many people have never been told who they are. 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:02.399 They've had give voices playing over and over. 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:04.080 They believe the lies. 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:07.919 You're average, you're not talented, you're unattractive, you'll never do 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:10.960 anything great. Now, let me tell you who you really are. 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:15.080 You're a child of the most tih God. You're beautiful, 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:20.879 you're talented, you're strong, you're successful. You're one of a kind, 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:26.080 a history maker, a giant killer, a mighty hero. Paul 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:31.080 said in Romans eight, the entire universe is standing on tiptoe, 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.359 yearning to see the unveiling. 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:36.400 Of God's glorious sons and daughters. 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:40.640 Paul is saying, all of Heaven is waiting for you 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:42.520 to recognize who you are. 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:46.919 They're standing on tiptoe. They can. Maybe today they'll get in. 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:51.119 Maybe they'll realize they're a masterpiece, they're a mighty hero, 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:55.119 a king's son. Maybe today they'll realize they don't belong 0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:58.000 in lodo bar, that they can step up to the table, 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:01.919 that they're royalty. You want to give Heaven something to 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:05.840 cheer about. See yourself the way God sees you. Quit 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:10.600 discounting yourself, Heken, you're at a disadvantage you're lacking. Get 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:14.000 out a load of bar get out of that negative mindset, 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:15.840 and come over into the palace. 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:17.600 The King is looking for you. 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:21.400 He sent me to help you discover who you really are. 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:25.680 See many of us, like Gideon, we have much more 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:29.199 in us, but we're stuck in an old version of 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:32.480 who we are. I didn't know this ability was in me. 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:34.439 Get up and speak in front of people. 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:35.880 I was stuck in. 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:39.480 Who I used to be behind the scenes doing the production. 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.280 That version was fine for the time, but it wasn't 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:47.359 the final version. There are new versions of you coming 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:52.840 that are stronger, wiser, more successful, greater favor You. 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:55.879 Don't see it all at once. It happens in stages. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:57.480 If you'll stay. 0:27:57.240 --> 0:28:01.960 Open, you'll discover a greater version of you. My challenge 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:04.280 is don't get stuck in who you used to be. 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:09.040 Letting limitations from the past, what someone said keep you 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:10.080 from stepping. 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:13.120 Up to who you really are. This is a new day. 0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:18.040 I'm calling out the mighty Hero, the burier breaker, the masterpiece. 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:21.720 Take off all those negative labels and get an agreement 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:22.280 with God. 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:26.520 If you'll do this, I believe and declare, like Gideon, 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:31.680 You're gonna discover talent, courage, creativity, favor that you never 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:35.720 knew you had. You're gonna accomplish dreams bigger than you thought, 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:39.840 overcome obstacles that look insurmountable, and become. 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:41.240 All you were created to be. 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:45.280 In Jesus' name, And if you receive it, well, you 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:50.200 say amen. 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