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I 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.800 like to start with something funny, and I heard about 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.399 this man that was out walking on the beach. God said, son, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.440 you've been so faithful, I'm gonna grant you one special wish. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.120 He was so excited. He said, God, I've always wanted 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.280 to go to Hawaii, but I'm afraid to fly. So 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.160 my wish is that you would build a bridge across 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.160 the ocean. God said, son, that's impossible. Think of the 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.239 logistics of that. Now take a moment and wish again. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.320 The man thought about it and said, okay, God, I've 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.560 been married four times. All my ex wives say I 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.880 am so insensitive. So my wish is that I would 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.799 be able to understand a woman. I want to know 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.520 why they think like they think, why they feel like 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.360 they feel. There was a long pause, and God said, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.080 do you want two lanes or four lanes on that bridge? 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.840 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.560 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.000 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.640 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.760 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.120 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.840 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.400 about remember who you are. We all face challenges in 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.200 life that we don't know. How are going to work out? 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.960 How am I going to get well? How am I 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.440 going to meet the right person? How is this dream 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.520 going to come to pass? But here's the key. The 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.240 how is not as important as the who. When you 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.600 know who you are a child of the Most High God, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.640 crowned with favor, with royal blood flowing through your veins, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.080 then the who will override the how. The how is 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.880 not up to us. The how may look impossible. If 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.640 you stay focused on how, you're going to get worried, discouraged. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.640 Your job is not to figure everything out. Your job 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.640 is to honor God, be your best, and he will 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.200 take care of the how. We spend too much time 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.800 on the how. How is my child going to get 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.159 back on course? How am I going to make it 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.720 through this pandemic? How can I overcome this opposition at work? 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.880 Why don't you spend that same time on the who? Father? 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.720 Thank you that I am your child. Thank you that 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.839 you handpicked me, You chose me before I could choose you. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.400 Thank you that you are for me, that you are 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.360 fighting my battles. If you'll focus on the who, God 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.120 will take care of the how. When our children were small, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.960 they never once said, Daddy, how are we going to 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.440 pay our bills this month? How are we going to 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.839 get to school tomorrow? How are we going to have 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.320 something for dinner tonight? They were never concerned about the how, 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.479 because they knew the who, because they belonged to us. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.120 They knew their father was going to take care of it. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.640 They knew Daddy is going to keep us safe. Daddy's 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.960 going to make sure we get there, Daddy's going to 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:35.240 protect us, provide show us favor. What if we had 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.599 that same kind of childlike faith, not trying to figure 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.640 out all the hows, worried about how our health is 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.480 going to improve, and how we're going to accomplish the goal, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.440 how we're going to get out of this difficulty. Can 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.120 I tell you your heavenly Father is going to take care 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.920 of the house. When you understand that you belong to him, 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.000 then you can live from a place of peace knowing 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.920 that Daddy's going to protect you. Dad, he's going to 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.840 show you favor, that he's going to turn that problem around. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.719 As an earthly father, I knew how to do things 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:12.680 that my children didn't understand. I had experience, wisdom, strength 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.760 that they didn't have. How much more so our heavenly father. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.360 He created the universe, He flung stars into space. He 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.920 has ways of doing things that we can't see. He's 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.680 working behind the scenes lining up what you need to 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:33.080 accomplish your dreams. He already has a solution to that 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.520 problem that's stressing you out. He has angels watching over you, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.240 he has favor surrounding you. He's put a blessing on 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:46.039 your life that circumstances and people cannot stop. You have 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.279 an advantage because of who your heavenly Father is. When 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.640 you face situations you don't see how they could work out. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.360 Don't live worried. The how is not up to you. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.479 God wouldn't have allowed it if it was going to 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.719 keep you from your destiny. He won't let you get 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.240 in a problem that he can't get you out of. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.760 If you'll stay focused on the Who, knowing that you 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.840 are His child, that you are blessed, favored, anointed, empowered, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.320 then God will take care of the house. This is 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.680 what David did. At seventeen years old, He was out 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.440 in the shepherd's fields when his father asked him to 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.560 take lunch to his brothers. They were serving in the 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.880 army in another city. When he arrived, he heard Goliath, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.800 the champion of the Philistine army, taunting the Israelites. They 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.960 were all afraid, but something rose up in David, a fire, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.280 a passion and anointing. He said, who is this man 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.960 that he should defy the armies of the Living God. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.320 He told King Saul that he wanted to fight Goliath. 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.240 Saul laughed. Goliath was twice David's size. He was their 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.760 most skilled warrior. He was wearing a full of armor. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.960 David had no military training, no experience. The how seemed impossible, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.520 no way in the natural. But David understood this principle 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.400 that the howl wasn't up to him. He stood before 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.720 Goliath said you come against me with a sword and 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.920 a shield, but I come against you in the name 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.600 of the Lord God of Israel. He was saying, in effect, Goliath, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.680 I may be small, I may be inexperienced. The odds 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.800 are against me, but I have a secret. I know 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.080 who I am. I belong to the most high. I 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.760 have an advantage. Fever is on my life. He didn't 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.440 focus on the how, He focused on the who. He 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.920 took his slingshot out, slung that rock, hit Goliath in 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.360 the forehead, knocked him unconscious. When you know who you are, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.959 you'll defeat giants that are much bigger. You may be 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.040 facing situations now that you don't see how they could 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.920 work out. You could live worried, stressed. You have to 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.320 shift your perspective from the how to the who. Who 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.760 you are is more powerful than any force trying to 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.600 stop you. You're not just anyone. You belong to the 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.680 most God. He breathed life into you, He chose you, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.720 and the good news is he's backing you up. He 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.680 has the hows already figured out. There's no giant too 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.079 big for him, no sickness too great, no addiction too powerful, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.480 no obstacle too strong. Like David, you may not see 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.040 the how. That's okay. The how is not up to you. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.520 When you know who you are, you live from a 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.840 place of faith, a place of trust, a place of confidence, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.600 then you're going to see God show out in your life. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:54.680 You don't have to have big resources, big talent, big connections. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.880 God will take your sling shop, what seems small and 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.319 put his favor on on it, and you will defeat 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.080 great giants. It's not so much what you have. It's 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.040 the blessing on what you have. It's the favor on 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.040 what you have. Where does that come from your talent, 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.160 your family, from being good enough? No, it comes from 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.760 who you are. When God created you, he put his 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.640 blessing on you, He put his favor. Now quit trying 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.800 to figure out all the hows and rest in the who. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.360 I heard about these baby cub bears. They were out 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.080 in the woods playing having fun when this pack of 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.480 wolves came out of nowhere and started toward them. The 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.520 cubs saw the wolves out in the distance, but they 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.280 didn't get alarmed. They didn't take off running. Seemed like 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.000 they were naive, like they were about to be harmed, 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.319 but it didn't bother them. When the wolves got about 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.959 twenty yards away, out of nowhere came this huge mama 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.520 bear with their paws up in the air, growling forcefully, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.440 just like she was saying, come on, make my day. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.320 Those wolves stopped in their tracks, turned around, and went 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.840 back to where they came from. The reason the cubs 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.679 weren't upset, the reason they didn't panic is they knew 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.040 who they belonged to. They didn't worry about the how, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.839 how they were going to stay safe, how they were 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.719 not going to be harmed. They knew Mama would take 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.320 care of the how. You may have things coming against you, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.080 but you're not on your own. Because of who you are. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.960 You can stay in peace. Not because Mama Bear is 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.240 backing you up, but because the Most High God has 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.800 your back. He's watching over you, he's pushing back forces 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.800 of darkness. He's not allowing that sickness to take you out. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.600 He's not letting those people keep you down. They may 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.600 have shown up, but God sees it. He knows what's happening, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.840 and he is on his way. Quit worrying, quit losing sleep. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.120 God has you in the palm of his head, and 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.200 he never asked us to figure out the how. In fact, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:08.040 the scripture says, trust in the Lord with all your heart, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.960 lean not to your own understanding. If you only lean 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.719 to your understanding, you're going to get frustrated. Because sometimes 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.599 there is no logical solution, there's no way out in 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.720 the natural. But we serve a supernatural God. He can 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.480 make things happen that we couldn't make happen. When Victoria 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.440 and I had been married about two years, we lived 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.640 in an apartment complex and one evening we were out 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.880 walking through this nice neighborhood with big trees and beautiful 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.880 two story homes. We came to this one house that 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.440 was under construction and it was just about finished. It 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.400 was late in the day, no one was working, so 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.480 we went to look at it. The front door was unlocked, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.000 so we walked in. It was so beautiful. I'll never 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.600 forget the tall ceilings, the big curved windows, was all 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.280 so spacious and well done. As we were walking out 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:09.319 the front sidewalk, Victoria stopped, turned around and said, Joel, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.920 one day we're going to live in a house just 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.520 like this. That was so far out of my thinking, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.880 so unbelievable. I couldn't even fathom it. Now. I started 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.880 telling her all the reasons why it wasn't going to happen. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.800 I said, Victoria, that's impossible. This is how much we make. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.960 I work for a ministry, even if we say for 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.800 years we wouldn't have enough. I went on and on 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.320 that no more affected her. She said, no, Joel, I 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.679 know down in my spirit is going to happen. The 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.679 more she believed, the more aggravated that made me. I 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.280 did my best to convince her to be a doubter. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.280 Come on, we're limited, We'll never have enough. We're at 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.960 a disadvantage. Her attitude was no, thanks. I know who 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.560 I am. I am blessed, i am favored, I am anointed. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.120 I'm a child of the most high. I wonder how 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.560 many times we're doing like I did. I can't get well. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.040 Have you seen the medical report. I'll never break this addiction. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.160 I've had it since high school. My business will never 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.959 succeed I don't have the resources, the connections. All this time, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.480 you're focused on the how, thinking about what you can't do, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.240 what you don't have. God is saying, let me take 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.000 care of the how. You just focus on the who. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.720 You Believe that you're my child, Believe that you have 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.480 an advantage. Believe that I'm a good father. Believe that 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.840 I will take care of you, heal you, restore you, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.360 favor you, prosper you. We would walk that pass several 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.520 times a week. Every time Victoria would say, there's that 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.240 house we're going to live in something like that. One day, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.680 after hearing that over and over, she started to convince me, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.120 you've heard that, saying if you can't beat them, join them. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.680 She wasn't going to sit down to where I was, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.360 so I decided to rise up to where she was. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:08.760 Don't let people speaking doubt, defeat, negativity cause you to 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.120 give up on your dreams. Instead of letting them talk 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.360 you out of it, you need to keep saying it 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.680 so much that you talked them into it. Several years later, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.600 we bought an old rundown house on a nice piece 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.280 of property close into the city. The day we closed 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.680 on the house, we were standing in the front yard. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.960 A car pulled up and stopped. This lady got out 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.640 and said she was a realator. She asked if we 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.120 wanted to sell the property. I said no, we just 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.520 bought it. She said, well, how about selling it for 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.720 a significant profit. I told her that we wanted to 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.880 keep it. She said, congratulations, you just bought your dream house. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.840 I didn't know what she was talking about. A few 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.360 months later, the neighborhood changed the deed restrictions where you 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.200 could subdivide the lots. A year later, we sold half 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.160 the property for more than wet the whole property for 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.680 a builder built two homes on it, one for us. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.760 We sold that home and bought a house down the 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.920 street from the original house. Victoria said we were going 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.840 to live in. When we moved in, I said, Victoria, 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.160 here's this house I always said we were going to 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.520 live in. She almost didn't even let me stay there. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.600 Are you trying to figure out the house? Leave that 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.200 up to God. You focus on the who Lord. Thank 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.360 you that i'm your child, that you've chosen me, that 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.320 you've ordered my steps. You said your plans for me 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.000 are for good. You said you would do more than 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.040 I can ask, think or imagine one time the disciples 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.240 asked Jesus how to pray, and he gave them what 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.080 we know now as the Lord's Prayer. He started off saying, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.280 our father, who aren't in heaven, goes on to talk 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.680 about give us our daily bread, protect us from evil, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.520 help us to forgive, on and on. But it's significant 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.240 that before we add for our needs, before we ask 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.040 for protection for guidance, God said, I want you to 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.600 acknowledge who you are. I want you to see yourself 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.840 as my child, our father. You're saying, God, I know 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.679 who I am. I belong to you. You're my father. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.919 You created me, you love me, you care for me, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.720 you protect me, you favor me. If you don't know 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.560 who you are, then the rest of this prayer is 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.760 not going to be effective. You can't ask in faith 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.679 for the daily bread, the protection, the provision if you 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.720 don't know you're his child. You may have some house, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.800 you don't know how you're going to finish school, how 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.239 your family is going to stay together, how you're going 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.680 to come out of that depression. But if you will 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:52.080 just keep the who, God, You're my father, I'm your child. God, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.200 I trust you when you know the who God will 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.080 take care of the house. Luke Chapter one. There's the 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.560 story of marya, the mother of Jesus. She was a 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.159 teenager living in Nazareth, one of the poorest cities of 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.399 that region. An angel appeared to her and said that 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.920 she was going to have a baby without knowing a man. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.560 He said he would be the Messiah. They were to 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:19.480 name him Jesus. Mary was confused. She thought, that's impossible. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.640 You can't have a baby without a man. That defies 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.360 the laws of nature. She said to the angel, how 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.280 can I have a baby? I'm a virgin. Mary had 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.719 a howl. I don't see how this can happen. The 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.320 angel said, the Holy Spirit will come upon you. The 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.879 power of the Most High will overshadow you, and you 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.119 will have this child. He was saying, in effect, Mary, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.399 don't worry about the how God will take care of 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.800 the How Like Mary, you may have a howl. God's 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.240 given you a promise, but seems impossible. How can you 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.040 get well? How can you come out of death? How 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.200 can you accomplish your dream? God is saying to you 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.320 what he said to Mary. The power of the Most 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:09.520 High will overshadow you. One version says overtake you, those 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.920 dreams that look impossible. You're going to see God's favor 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:19.679 overtake you. Healing, overtake you, Freedom, overtake you. Overtake means 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.400 you can't outrun it, you can't hide from it. The 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.000 power of the Most High is going to make things 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.719 happen that you couldn't make happen. Don't worry about the 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:34.160 house may seem too big, too late, too far, too much. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.560 That's the way Mary felt. Listen to what she said. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.680 She could have doubted like I did. Who will never 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.399 live in a house like that? Are you kidding? Have 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.680 a baby without a man? But Mary said in verse 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.880 thirty eight, I am the Lord's child. I will accept 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:56.159 whatever he wants. May everything you said come true? Instead 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.199 of focusing on the how she switched over to the 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.399 who I know who I am the Lord's child, I 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.320 am favored, I am blessed, I am anointed. Why don't 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.000 you do like Mary and leave the howl up to 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.600 God and just stay focused on who you are. Lord. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.800 Thank you that you're my father, that you're working in 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.600 my life, that you're taking me where I can't go 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.119 on my own. God is going to put dreams in 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.960 your heart that seem impossible. Obstacles will come that look 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.639 too big, enemies too strong. That's when it's easy to 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.360 let the hows talk you out of it. I don't 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.119 see how this can work out, Joe. You don't have to. 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.840 The how is not up to you. The power of 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.080 the Most High is going to work it out. Take 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.800 the pressure off yourself. Quit living worried, frustrated. It's not 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.840 going to be by your strength, by your ability, but 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.879 by the spirit of the living God. The Angel told 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.760 Mary that it was going to happen without knowing a man. 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.800 Was talking about the physical, but this has a deeper meaning. 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.679 God was showing us that you're not dependent on people. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:12.560 What you're believing for can happen without a man. Well, 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.600 if I can just get this manager to like me, 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:16.639 if I can get this friend to give me a 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.920 good break, you don't need who you think you need. 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.440 When it's your time, the power of a Most High 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.160 will overtake you. When God shows up. Nothing can stand 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.760 in his way. Chains will break, doors will open, opportunity 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.480 will come. If it can happen without a man, then 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.320 it can happen without a bank, without the treatment, without 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.600 the experience, without the resources. God is about to surprise you. 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.439 Like with Mary, It's going to be something you've never seen, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:51.520 something that's never happened in your family, something that defies 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:56.119 the odds catapults you into your destiny. I talked to 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.639 a young lady that had big dreams. She knew God's 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.159 hand on her, but she made poor decisions. She was 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.240 at the wrong place the wrong time. She ended up 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.639 in prison. She was so depressed and so down on 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.960 herself that she didn't want to live. Someone gave her 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:16.280 one of my books and she started reading it. Hope 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.760 began to feel her heart. Dreams started coming back to life. 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.000 She got her passion back. She believed that she was 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:27.560 still a child of God, redeemed and forgiven. The problem 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:31.399 was the how how could she fulfill her purpose. She 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.160 was in prison, looked like she would be there for 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:39.040 many years, but through a series of unusual events, she 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:44.240 was unexpectedly released years ahead of schedule. When the power 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.240 of the most high overtakes you, doors will open that 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.560 shouldn't open. She went back to school and got her 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:56.399 master's degree in counseling, then her PhD. Now she's helping 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.840 people that were like her in a dark place struggling 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:03.119 with depression, she said, I never dreamed I would be 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.760 where I am. You don't have to figure out the how. 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.760 Just get the who right, and God will take care 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:13.400 of the how. You may have made mistakes, that's not 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:17.080 who you are, that's what you did. You are still 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:22.960 a son, a daughter of the Most High, forgiven, redeemed, restored, 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:28.960 called equipped, chosen, and anointed. Keep your shoulders back, hold 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:32.040 your head up high. The enemy would love for you 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:35.480 to go through life with your who messed up, thinking 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:38.840 you've blown it, you missed your chance. You're not worthy, 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:43.199 not valuable. Just sit on the sidelines. Don't believe those lies. 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:48.560 Nothing you've done has changed who you are. No mistake 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.760 you've made has disqualified you. When you gave your life 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.680 to Christ, you were born into God's family. You can't 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:00.879 get unborn. His calling on your life doesn't go because 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:04.399 you've made mistakes. He took wrong turns, you got off course. 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:09.560 You are still his child. In the scripture, God told 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.200 Jonah to go one way, but he went the other. 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:14.879 He knew what he was supposed to do, to go 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.720 to the city of Nineveh tell them to repent, but 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.520 he went exactly opposite. He ended up on a boat 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:25.360 in the middle of a huge storm. He finally admitted 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.360 to the crew that he was the problem. They were 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.000 so grateful, they said, thank you Jonah. They threw him overboard. 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.080 He should have been done. This should have been the 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.360 end of his story. But it just so happened. There 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.280 was a big fish that swallowed Jonah. Even when we 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:46.280 make mistakes, even when we bring trouble on ourselves, God 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:49.959 is so merciful, He'll still protect us. He'll still provide 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:53.800 a way of escape. Jonah was sitting in the belly 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:58.879 of that well, seaweed wrapped around his head. It was dark, smelly. 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:02.080 He didn't see how he could get out. He could 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:06.240 have complained, been depressed. He said in verse seven, my 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:10.919 life was slipping away. Then I remembered the Lord, my God. 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:14.399 He was saying, in effect, I was just about done. 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:18.440 Then I remembered who I am. He started thanking God 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:21.600 in the belly of the well. The how looked impossible. 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:24.840 How could he get out? How could he survive? All 0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:28.359 the odds were against him. But as he was thanking God, 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:32.479 the scripture says, God caused the fish to spit him 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:35.680 up on dry ground. You don't have to figure out 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:40.840 the how. God controls the universe. He controls fish. One 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:43.399 time he told Peter to go to the lake, and 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:46.800 the first fish he caught had coins to pay their taxes. 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:51.960 God controls the economy, He controls finances. He even controls 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:56.840 your enemies. The scripture says God caused Pharaoh to harden 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.800 his heart. When you remember who you are, God will 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:04.480 cause things to happen. The medical report doesn't look good, 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:07.920 don't worry. God can cause you to get well. He 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:11.320 controls the number of your days. People at work are 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:15.359 against you. They're more powerful, have more influence. God will 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:19.280 cause you to overcome. That's not your battle. The how 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:21.800 is not up to you. The battle is the Lord's. 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:25.920 Your business seems stuck, look like you've reached your limits. 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.960 God will cause you to succeed. He'll cause opportunities to 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:33.480 come your way. When you know who you are, you 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:36.520 won't get discouraged by the how. You know. The Lord 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:40.760 will cause things to happen. I believe even now, God 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:45.000 is causing your health to turn around. He's causing that depression, 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:49.480 that anxiety, that fear to leave. He's causing the right 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:52.879 people to find you. He's causing you to conceive that 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:56.560 baby you've been dreaming about. He's causing that trouble in 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.960 your family to resolve, causing that child to get back 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.440 on course. You couldn't make it happen. The odds were 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:07.960 against you. But suddenly things are going to fall into place. Well, Joe, 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:10.840 this sounds good, but I don't see how it can happen. 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:15.600 Neither did Jonah, neither did Mary, neither did David. But 0:27:15.640 --> 0:27:18.800 the how is not your job. You focus on the 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:22.119 who and let God take care of the how. He 0:27:22.200 --> 0:27:25.600 parted red seas, he brought water out of a rock. 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.560 He caused Isaac to prosper in a famine, Sarah to 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:32.720 have a baby at eighty four Leopards, to defeat a 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:36.080 huge army. He knows how to get you to your destiny. 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:40.760 And in difficult times, when life is not fair, when 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:44.919 we've made mistakes, gone through disappointments, that's when it's easy 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:48.000 to get discouraged, give up on that dream. You have 0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:51.199 to remember who you are father. Thank you that I 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:53.800 am your child, that you have me in the palm 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:56.359 of your hand, that you are making ways where I 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:58.840 don't see away, that you will get me to where 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:02.760 I'm supposed to be. When we greet people, we often 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:07.200 ask how are you? If we were honest, sometimes we'd 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:11.360 answer I'm lonely, I'm fighting an illness, I've been through 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:14.440 a loss, I'm in a belly of a well. That's 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:18.840 how you are, but that's not who you are. Circumstances 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:21.760 may have taken your how. The good news is they 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:25.360 couldn't take your who. You may have been through disappointments, 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:30.520 bad breaks, loss that didn't affect your identity. You are 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:34.840 still His child. You are still blessed, you are still favored, 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:38.520 You are still forgiven. You still have an awesome destiny 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:42.320 to fulfill. Quit worrying about the how and start focusing 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:45.680 on the who. If you'll do this, I believe and 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:49.640 declare life with Mary, the power of the Most High 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:53.320 is about to overtake you. Dreams that look impossible are 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:56.680 about to come to pass. Problems that seem permanent are 0:28:56.720 --> 0:29:01.200 about to turn around. Healing is coming, breakthrough coming, freedom 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:05.360 is coming. The fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:08.320 And if you receive it, can you say him in Today? 0:29:09.600 --> 0:29:12.360 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:14.920 the Lord of your life. 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