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We'd love to 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.440 have you come out. But thanks for tuning in and 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.360 thank you again for coming out today. And I like 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.240 to start with something funny. And I heard about this wife. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.360 She was taking a nap on Valentine's Day in the afternoon. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.800 When she woke up, she called her husband said, honey, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.880 I had a dream that you bought me a beautiful 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.240 diamond ring for Valentine's Day. What do you think this 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.400 dream means? He said, you'll find out tonight. That evening, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.120 he brought home a small box, beautifully wrapped. She was 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.919 so excited she opened it up. It was a book 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:47.560 entitled The Meaning of Dreams. Hold up your Bible, say 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.480 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.800 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.200 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.160 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.840 I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.640 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.000 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:16.640 removing negative labels throughout life. People are constantly sticking labels 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.200 on us, telling us what we can and cannot become. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.480 And sometimes this is good. People speak faith into us, 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.400 they encourage us. But then there are times that people 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:34.040 put negative labels on us. You cannot stop the negative comments, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.360 you can't prevent the negative labels, but you can choose 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:43.080 to remove them. As a teenager, Disney was told by 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.920 his art instructor that he wasn't creative, he didn't have 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:51.360 any imagination. Disney was smart enough to remove that label. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.280 He went on to do pretty good. Lucille Ball was 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.400 told that she didn't have any acting skills, she should 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:03.040 try a different profession. She removed that label, starting I 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:08.160 Love Lucy for many years. Winston Churchill felled the sixth grade, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.720 told he wasn't smart enough. He went on to become 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.120 one of the greatest prime ministers that's ever lived. The 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.039 common denominator in the success of these people is they 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.640 chose to remove the negative labels the same way today 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.200 people put labels on us. When my father went to 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.080 be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, I stepped 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.400 up to pastor the church I had never ministered before. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.599 One Sunday after the service, I overheard two ladies talking 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.120 in the lobby. One said he's not as good as 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.360 his father. The other answered back, yes, I don't think 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.000 the church is going to last. I was already insecure, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.840 I already felt unqualified, and boom, another negative label. Not 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:58.360 good enough, not up to par, inferior. That's the way 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.840 the enemy works. He would love to put labels on 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.720 you to keep you from reaching your highest potential. He 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.719 doesn't fight you for where you are. He fights you 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.800 for where you're going. He knows God has amazing things 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.839 in your future, so he'll try to discourage you, intimidate you, 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.840 make you feel inferior. And words are like seeds. If 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.560 you dwell on them long enough, they will take root 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.320 and become what was said. And I tried to remove 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.120 that negative label, but it wasn't easy. Those thoughts would 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.279 play in my mind again and again, You're not good enough, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.000 you don't have what it takes. It was like trying 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.279 to peel a bumper sticker off of a car that's 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.440 been there a long time, and you know you peel 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.520 it and it tears you. Gotta work and work. I 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.320 fought those thoughts in my mind day after day. Finally 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.160 I removed that negative label, and I put some new 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.680 labels on. I can do all things through Christ. I 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.799 am strong in the Lord. I am annoying. Here's my point. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.680 If I had made the mistake of wearing that negative label, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.560 I don't believe I would be standing here today. Wrong 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.240 labels can keep you from your destiny. Don't go the 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.719 next twenty years allowing one negative comment to hold you back. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.040 You are not who people say you are. You are 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.560 who God says you are. People will label you not 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.880 good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. God 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:33.000 labels you strong, talented, valuable, more than a conquer Make 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.760 sure that you're wearing the right labels. Many people don't 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.120 know any better. They wear the negative labels right they're 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.320 the truth. They become so ingrained in their thinking they 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.359 end up becoming what people say they are instead of 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.279 what God says that they are. Are. There labels that 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.279 are holding you back today, what a coach said, what 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:01.400 a counselor said, even negative comments spoken by your parents. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.680 This is the time to remove every negative label. People 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.280 don't determine your destiny. God does. The only power that 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.160 label has over you is the power that you give 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.720 it if you will remove it. In other words, quit 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.240 thinking about it, quit acting like it's the truth. Then 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.600 that label will have no effect on you. Those two 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.480 ladies said the church wouldn't last. I didn't have the talent. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.760 They couldn't stop my destiny. They couldn't stop what God 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.440 had already ordained. The only way they could have limited 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.760 me is if I would have warned their negative label around. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.600 I know a gentleman. He told how he overheard his 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.240 junior high teacher telling his mother how he was a 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.360 slow learner. For thirty years, he wore that label around, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.640 never had a good job, never had real success, just 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.679 kind of floundered through life. And one day I told 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.960 him what I'm telling you, You've got to remove that label. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.080 Your teacher may have been sincere. She may have made 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.600 an assessment based on where you were at the time, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.680 but this is a new day. She didn't know what 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.040 God put in you. If you're going to reach your 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.280 highest potential, you got to say no, thanks. I am 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.640 not wearing that slow learner label anymore. That may have 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.640 been her opinion, but I have another opinion. It's from 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.520 my creator, and he says I have the mind of Christ, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.080 that I am full of wisdom, that I can fulfill 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.720 my destiny. Don't let negative labels hold you back. I 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.240 talked to a high school student one time, and she 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.679 was about to take her final exams, and she said, Joel, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.200 will you pray that God will help me to make 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.679 seas on these tests? I said, why do we want 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.640 to pray for c's and not a's. She said, oh no, Joel. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.240 My high school counselor told me, I'm just a C student. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.760 She didn't know any better. Somebody stuck a label on her. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.760 She was wearing around like it was the truth. Have 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.760 you ever thought about the same God that can help 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.640 you make a C can help you make an A. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.920 Why don't you remove that label? The same God that 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.320 can help you get by in life can help you 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.480 excel in life. The same God that can give you 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.000 an apartment can give you a beautiful house. Are there 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.360 labels that are holding you back? The label divorced, I'll 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.680 never meet anyone new. The label overweight, I'll never get 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:34.280 in shape, the label addicted, I'll never break these bad habits. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.920 Whatever label you're wearing, you're going to become what that 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.680 label says. You're giving it the power. And this is 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.760 why some people can't break an addiction. They're wearing that 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.640 label addict. The real battle is taking place in our mind. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.680 If you think you're an addict, you've already lost. You've 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.520 got to change the label. God says you are free, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.200 you are clean, you are healthy, you are a whole. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.800 Don't go the next twenty years wearing that addict label. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.280 Put some new labels on. Today. I had a young 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.480 man tell me how he was the main drug dealer 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.520 in his neighborhood. He was sincere. He wasn't proud of it, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.360 he said, Joel, I know this is not right. I 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.360 don't like doing it, but it's the only thing that 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.040 I'm good at. He was wearing that drug dealer label. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.320 That's all he thought he could do. I told him, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.760 if you can sell drugs, you can sell medical supplies. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.840 If you can sell drugs, you can sell stocks and bonds. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.600 Think about this. To sell drugs, you have to get 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.560 the word out. That's advertising. You have to manage your inventory. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.120 That's administration. You have to take care of your clients. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:54.040 That's customer service. Don't sell yourself. Short removed any labels 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.640 that are holding you back. Let me ask you who 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.199 told you all you can do is sell drugs. It's 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.160 not the truth. Who told you all you can make 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.120 in school are c's and not as a counselor. They 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.840 didn't know what God put in you. Who told you 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.199 you could never succeed, You'll not be as good as 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.600 your father. Two ladies in the lobby. They don't determine 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.000 your destiny. Who told you you'll never own a nice house, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.559 you'll never get married, You'll never accomplish your dreams. Those 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:28.200 labels did not come from your creator. Just because somebody 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.640 spoke them over you doesn't mean it's the truth. You 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.400 have the power to remove those negative labels. Some of 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.920 you have been wearing them way too long, things like 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.280 you'll never go to college. Nobody in your family has 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.480 take that label off. You can be the first. You'll 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.920 never get out of that neighborhood. All the odds are 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.480 against you. That's what they told my father. He removed 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.360 the label. God took him places that he never dreamed of. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.960 You'll never get well, That sickness is terminal. It's what 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.280 they told my mother. She removed the label. Thirty two 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:08.520 years later, she's still healthy, whole, strong. Friends, We serve 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.560 a supernatural god. He can do what medicine cannot do. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.920 He's not limited by your education, your background, the family 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.480 you come from. He's not moved by the things people 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.640 have spoken over you. He's not up in heaven all 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.200 frantic trying to figure out how to get you to 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.960 your destiny. He knows the end from the beginning. He 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.680 already has solutions to problems you've not even had. He's 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.920 all powerful and all knowing. People may have tried to 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.359 push you down, but if you'll just remove those labels 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.640 and get in agreement with God, he'll push you up. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.679 He'll take you where you could not go on your own. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.600 You don't have to figure it all out. All God 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.360 asks you to do is believe. When you believe, all 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.760 things are possible. When you believe, doors will open that 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.800 she have never opened. When you believe, God will take 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.240 you from the back to the front. Don't let negative 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:11.040 labels hold you down. People will tell you you're all washed up, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.079 you've made too many mistakes. If you wear that label, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.319 it will keep you from the amazing future God has 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.280 in store. God says, my mercy is bigger than any mistake. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.720 God says, I can still get you to your destiny. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.320 God says I'll give you beauty for those ashes. I'll 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.280 pay you back double for the unfair things that have happened. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.840 You wouldn't be alive unless God had another victory in 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.400 your future. Why don't you take off the washed up label, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.160 take off the failure, guilty, condemned labels, and put on 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:51.719 some new labels, redeemed, restored, forgiven, bright future, new beginning. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.480 People will tell you you're too small, you're too quiet, you 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.960 don't have a good personality, you come from the wrong family. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.880 Don't you dare go through life? Were in those labels? 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.280 You have been made in the image of Almighty God. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.760 God did not make any mistakes. You are the perfect size, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.760 You have the right personality, the right gifts, the right looks, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.960 the right skin color, says in Psalms. You have been 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:27.880 fearfully and wonderfully made. You are not an accident. God 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:32.120 designed you precisely for the race that's laid out for you. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.800 Remove those labels too big, too small, unattractive. Put on 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:42.280 this new label, fearfully and wonderfully made. One label far 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.800 too many people wear is the label average ordinary. Feel 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.320 nothing special about me. I'm just one of the six 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.440 billion people on the Earth. Listen. You were never created 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.880 to live an average life. You have seeds of greatness 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:03.120 on the inside. You were created to be a history maker. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.760 You're not supposed to live and die and nobody even 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.200 knew you were here. You're supposed to leave your mark 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.600 on this generation. God has an assignment for you that 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:20.280 nobody else can fulfill. God needs you. He needs your gifts, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.280 your smile, your love, your passion. You are a part 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.080 of his divine plan. You have something to offer that 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.680 nobody else can offer. Nobody has your exact personality, your 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:38.200 exact looks. There is something unique about you. Don't wear 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.080 that average label. If you think your average, then you'll 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.800 be average. If you think you're ordinary, then you'll live 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:50.000 an ordinary, get by life and never do anything great. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.960 The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.200 have the fingerprints of God all over you. The creator 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.520 of the universe breathed his life into you. He crowned 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:08.000 you with his favor. You have royal blood flowing through 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.480 your veins. You have a destiny to fulfill something greater 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.760 than you've ever even imagined. But if it's going to happen, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.280 if you're going to become all God's created you to be. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.880 One of the first things you got to do is 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.720 take off the average label, take off the ordinary label. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.640 Put on these new labels, masterpiece, valuable, one of a kind. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.240 This is what David did when the prophet Samuel came 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.400 to annoint one of his father's sons as the next 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:44.960 king of Israel. David's father, Jesse, didn't even bother to 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.840 bring David in from the shepherd's fields where he was 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.920 taking care of the sheep. Jesse thought, I know it's 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:56.200 not David. He's too small, too young, not that talented, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.840 not as smart as his brothers. David had all these 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.240 negative labels put on him by his own father. Samuel 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.240 looked at the other seven sons said not this one, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.840 not this one, not this one. Finally ran out, said 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.120 to Jesse, do you have any other sons? It's none 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.000 of these. Jesse said, yeah, my youngest son, David is 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:21.240 out in the shepherd's field. But I know it's not him. Friends, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.560 God doesn't label the way people label. People look on 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.840 the outside. God looks on the heart. God knows what 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.800 you're capable of. God can see the seeds of greatness 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.920 that He's placed in you. It's so easy to let 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.800 what someone has spoken over us to keep us from 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:45.080 really believing in ourselves. David walked in. Samuel took one 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.879 look at him and said, he's the one that's the 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.600 next king of Israel. Right there, David had to make 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.920 that decision that I'm asking you to make. He had 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:58.160 to remove the negative labels. He'd heard them a thousand times, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.040 too small, too young, you don't have what it takes. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:07.119 What's interesting is David's brothers, even though they saw Samuel 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.280 anoint David as the next king, they still tried to 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.160 stick their negative labels on him. David was out where 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.600 the army gathered. His oldest brother, Elieb said, David, what 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.560 are you doing out here? And with whom have you 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.000 left those few sheep you're supposed to be taking care of. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.200 What was Elieb doing? Sticking a label on him inferior? 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.560 Not good enough? Intimidated? David could have said, yeah, right, 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.159 what was our thinking? David could have accepted that label 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.760 and let it hold him back. But this time David 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.680 had a different attitude. He said, Eliab, what you say 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.480 about me doesn't change what God said about me. You're 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:55.440 still labeling me. We defeated inferior. You don't realize I've 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.359 gotten rid of those labels, and the creator of the universe, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.280 the God God who breathed life into me, puts some 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.600 new labels on me. They say giant killer, more than 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:11.800 a conqueror, destined for greatness, King of Israel. Now you 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.480 may have had negative things spoken over you, even by 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.800 people that should have been encouraging you. I love what 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.600 Isaiah said. No weapon formed against you will ever prosper. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.879 But every tongue raised in judgment. That means every negative 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.720 label you will show to be in the wrong. Notice 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.680 God's not going to do it. You have to show 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.439 it to be in the wrong. In other words, you 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:43.080 have to remove the negative label. Nothing that was spoken 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.080 over you has to define you, even if it was 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.840 from people who raised you. Nothing that's happened in your 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.360 past has to keep you from your destiny. Even if 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.640 you've made mistakes are gone through unfair situations. You can 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.640 show it to be in the worl wrong by shaking 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.639 off the self pity and moving forward with your life. 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.720 Will you dare do like David and remove the negative labels. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.960 Quit dwelling on what your mama said, what a jealous 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.760 sister said. What a cranky coworker said. What a cynical 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.000 neighbor said. You are not who people say you are. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.679 You are who God says you are. They cannot stop 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:30.800 your destiny. Remove the old labels. I'll give you some 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:36.280 new labels to wear. Giant killer, history maker, world changer. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:41.080 My friend Coach Dell Brown, he's the legendary coach of 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.000 the LSU basketball team, told me a story. He was 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.520 speaking to a group of soldiers at a military base 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.840 in California. When he finished, a young man came up 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.080 to him that stood nearly seven feet tall two hundred 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.760 and fifty pounds. He said, Coach Brown, I want to 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.560 try out for our basketball team, but I can't dunk 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.000 the basketball. I can barely jump when I run up 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.960 and down the court. My legs tire out so easily. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.600 I can only play a few minutes. Coach Brown asked 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.000 him how long he had been in the military. He said, 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.080 I'm not in the military. My father is. I'm thirteen 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:21.080 years old. He wore a size seventeen shoe. Coach Brown 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.600 took this young man under his wing, said, when I 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.960 get back to Louisiana, I'm going to send you my 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:32.160 training program, it'll help strengthen your legs and increase your endurance. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.680 Three months later, he got a letter from the young 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.520 man saying, Coach Brown, I've done everything you've asked me 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.080 to do, spend hours in the gym and in the 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:45.280 weight room working out, but my basketball coach just cut 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.119 me from the team. He told me I'm too big, 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.760 too slow, too clumsy. I'll never be able to play basketball, 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.000 all those negative labels. Coach Brown wrote him back and said, 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.960 in effect, listen, son, if you'll just keep working out, 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:05.160 keep being your best each day, and keep asking God 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:08.200 to help you, God will get you to where you're 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:12.080 supposed to be. That young man had to make a decision. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.840 Am I going to wear these negative labels through life? 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:20.520 Too big, too slow, too clumsy? Or am I going 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.000 to follow the dream that God's placed in my heart? 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:25.879 Am I going to believe I'm a giant killer and 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.399 I can do all things through Christ? He decided to 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:34.120 remove the negative labels That young man. Shaquille O'Neill ended 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:39.200 up going to LSU playing for Coach Brown, broke all 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.760 the records. You know how, Shaquille has become one of 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.479 the greatest basketball players that's ever played. But I wonder 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:50.199 where he would be if he would have believed the 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.240 negative labels. What if he had thought, I guess I 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.159 am kind of too big, too slow, too clumsy. We 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.960 wouldn't be talking about him today. Has somebody told you 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:04.720 you can accomplish your dreams? Like the ladies in the lobby, 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.359 You're not talented, you're too big, too small, you don't 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.040 have the experience. No, God didn't put the promise in them. 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.320 He put the promise in you. Now along the way, 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:21.560 there will always be negative voices trying to label you. 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:24.960 But God would not have given you the dream unless 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:29.520 he had already equipped you. You already have what you need. 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:34.640 What may seem like a limitation, too tall, too short, 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.840 God can use as an asset. God knows what he's doing. 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.640 He has designed you specifically for the race that you're in. 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:46.280 You may kind of feel like Shaquille that you've been 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.639 cut from the team. The experts have told you what 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.399 you can't do, what you don't have. Here's what I've learned. 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:59.000 The experts can be wrong. Experts built the Titanic and 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:04.320 it sunk. Amateurs built the Arc and it floated. The 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:07.880 expert said, we would never have this facility, but here 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:12.560 we are today. The expert said, my father would never 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.960 get out of poverty, but he did. The expert said 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.080 my mother wouldn't be alive today, but she is. The 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.520 expert said David was too small. God said he was 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:25.879 just the right size. The expert said that I couldn't 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:28.280 pastor a large church. I didn't have the experience, but 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:33.280 I've done pretty good. The expert, I've got one more. 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:37.399 The expert said, my brother Paul would be handsome. Didn't happen. 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:47.720 I'm not even gonna look. Don't let the experts talk 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:49.720 you out of what God has put in your heart. 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.879 In the scripture, a lady named Rachel died while giving 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:58.520 birth to her second son. There were complications in labor 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:02.600 and delivery for air trying to birth this child, and 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.200 so much pain and agony, And right before she died, 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:09.840 she gave birth. She named the boy ben an Ie, 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:15.320 which means son of my sorrows. She labeled him based 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:18.240 on what she had experienced. Now this little boy was 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:20.720 going to have to go through life being called son 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:25.600 of my sorrows. Sometimes people will put a negative label 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:29.320 on you, not because of anything you've done. But because 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:33.879 of the pain and heartache they've experienced, hurting people end 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:37.119 up hurting other people. Bitter people are quick to stick 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:42.240 on those negative labels. Few minutes after Rachel died, her husband, Jacob, 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:46.200 came rushing in. The nurses were holding the baby. They 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.040 handed him to Jacob and said, this is your son. 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:52.760 His name is ben and I son of my sorrows. 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:56.760 When he heard that, something came all over Jacob. He 0:25:56.840 --> 0:25:59.960 rose up and said, no, that is not his name. 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.800 No matter what he's been through in the past, my 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:07.920 son will not be called son of sorrows. His name 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:13.200 will be Benjamin. Benjamin means son of strength, son of power, 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:18.280 son of my right hand. Benjamin grew up to become 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:21.960 a great leader. Out of his family line came the 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:26.239 kings of Israel, one king after another. See God had 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:30.560 a great destiny for Benjamin to fulfill an assignment. But 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:33.040 God knew that if he went through life we're in 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:36.960 that label son of sorrow, he would never become what 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:40.880 he was created to be. So God stepped in and said, no, no, 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:44.399 he's not wearing that label. He's not a son of sorrow, 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.480 not a son of defeat, not a son of disappointment. 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:51.760 This child is a son of destiny. This child has 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:55.880 seeds of greatness. His name will be Son of Strength. 0:26:56.680 --> 0:27:02.240 God knows how powerful labels are. Maybe somebody has tried 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:08.360 to label you average, slow, learner, not talented, too many mistakes. 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.000 Now God is saying the same thing to you that 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:14.560 he said to little Benjamin. I am changing your name. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:18.680 I'm placing a new label on you. No more son 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:23.080 of sorrow, no more son of mediocrity, no more son 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:27.320 of broken dreams. I'm renaming you to son of strength, 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:32.600 to daughter of destiny, to child of influence, child of greatness, 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:37.879 child of victory. Now my challenge, remove the old labels 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:42.680 and start going by your new names. Masterpiece, valuable, one 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:46.840 of a kind, more than a conquer, history maker. Those 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:51.120 are the labels that we should be wearing. One last key. 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:54.760 People can call you many different things, but you are 0:27:54.800 --> 0:27:58.240 not what people call you. You are what you answer to. 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:04.040 They can call you slow, lazy, too old, all washed up. 0:28:04.040 --> 0:28:07.280 That's all right. Just don't answer to it. Answer to victorious, 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:12.680 answer to talented, answer to history maker. If you'll do that, 0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:16.280 I believe in declare. Today is going to be a 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:20.240 turning point. The bondages from the past are no longer 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.080 going to have any effect on you. You are going 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:26.600 to rise up and become the son of strength, the 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:31.240 daughter of influence, the child of victory, child of blessing, 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:36.560 child of favor, child of greatness. You will overcome every obstacle, 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:40.720 defeat every enemy, and become everything God's created you to be. 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:45.920 In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say amen? Well, 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:48.760 we never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:51.680 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:55.400 Would you pray with me today? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:28:56.440 --> 0:29:01.280 I'll repent of my sins, Come into my heart, wash 0:29:01.360 --> 0:29:06.080 me clean. I'll make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:08.280 if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:11.440 born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:14.040 God first place. He's going to take your places that 0:29:14.160 --> 0:29:15.040 you've never dreamed of. 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:19.080 Thank you for listening to the joel Ostine podcast. 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