The God Who Overrules

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The first 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.200 one said, my son is a priest. When he walks 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:54.000 in the room, everyone calls him father. The second said, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.600 my son is a bishop. When he walks in, everyone 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.800 calls him Your Grace. Said my son is a cardinal. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.639 When he walks in, everyone calls him your imminence. Fourth 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.799 lady said, my son is six foot three, has broad shoulders, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.080 is incredibly good looking, dresses impeccably well. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.959 When he walks in, all the ladies say, oh my God, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.840 say it like you mean it. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.280 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.160 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.800 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.840 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.240 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.680 the same. In Jesus' name. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:41.720 God bless you. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.360 I want to talk to you today about the God 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.120 who overrules. In the legal system, a court will rule 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.400 on a case and give its verdict, But just because 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.840 you have the verdict. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.160 Doesn't mean it's final. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.240 You can appeal that verdict to a higher if they 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:07.080 see it differently. Because they have more authority, they can overrule. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.119 What the lower court decided. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.000 There can be a ruling from a local court, a 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.320 regional court, a state court. They all see it one way, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.320 but if the Supreme Court sees. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.359 It another way, then all the. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.799 Lower court's rulings are nullipied, of no effect. The Supreme 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.079 Court is the highest authority. They can overrule any decision 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.960 in the same way. We all have things come against 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.640 us that look like they're permanent, looks like it's the 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:40.040 final decision. You'll always be addicted. It runs in your family. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.839 You'll never get well. You saw the medical report. You're 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.320 not going to meet the right person. You've been single 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:46.960 so long. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:48.600 Here's the key. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.400 That's the lower court's ruling. That's not the final say. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.080 There is a higher court that has more authority. Our 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.600 God is called the Most High God. He's the supreme court. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.480 All by himself. He can overrule any decision. When the 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:11.520 lower court tells you you'll never get well, God says, overruled. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.960 I'm restoring health back into youth. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:18.159 You've made too many mistakes. You'll never fulfill your destiny. Overruled, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.920 My mercy is bigger than any mistake. You'll never get 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.240 out of debt. Overruled, you will lend and not borrow. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.320 You won't break that addiction. Overruled. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:34.240 Freedom is coming, Wholeness is coming. He's the God who overrules. Now, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.960 don't let what the lower court decided become permanent in 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:38.560 your thinking. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:40.000 Don't let it. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.440 Discourage you to where you quit believing it's only temporary. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.599 That may be the way it is now, but your 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:52.599 case is under appeal, it's being reviewed. The good news 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:57.040 is the judge in your case the highest authority, the 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.240 one that makes the final decision. It just if so 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:05.520 happens you're related to him. He's not a distant cousin, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.520 a long lost relative that you've never met. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.600 He's your heavenly father. You have an advantage. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:17.000 The judge is on your side. The Psalmist said, my 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.240 enemies turned in retreat. They were defeated before me. For 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.200 you have judged in my favor those enemies that have 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:30.560 come against you, the enemy of sickness, enemy of addiction, fear, struggle, lack. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.800 God is about to judge in your favor. He's about 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.120 to overrule some things. What you're dealing with is not permanent. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.080 You're about to get a new verdict. You're going to 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.440 see a breakthrough in your health. Doors are going to 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.360 open bigger than you've imagined. God's going to bring divine 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.800 connections the right people across your path. I look back 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.440 over my life, and I can see the God who overrules. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:02.200 My father was born into poverty during the Great Depression. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.680 He had no money, no education. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.159 His family told him, John, you better just stay here 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.120 on the farm with us and pick cotton. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.800 That's all you know how to do. He could have believed. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.200 Those lies, but in his spirit he could hear God 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:22.080 saying overruled, I have a destiny for you. You weren't 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:27.119 created for mediocrity. You have seeds of greatness. Daddy rose 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.320 up and broke the curse of poverty. He set a 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.920 new standard for our family. It would have never happened 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.360 if he had not believed in the God who overrules. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.320 You may not be in a good place right now, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.320 but where you are is not who you are, and 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.560 what you come from doesn't have to limit where you're 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:47.960 going to. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.159 How you start is not important. How you finish is 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.640 what matters. The same God that overrule for my father 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.160 brought him into a life of victory and abundance, is 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.680 going to overrule for you. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.719 You're the one to set a new standard. You're the 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.320 one to break out of the mold. You can be 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.280 the first one in your family to get a degree, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.000 the first one to own your own business, the first 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.559 one to break the addiction, the first one to raise 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:20.840 your children in church. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.360 Don't settle for what the lower court is telling you. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.160 Nineteen eighty one, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.680 given a few weeks to live, God said, overruled. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.640 I don't agree with that verdict. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.480 With long life, I'll satisfy you. She's here, eighty three 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:44.640 years old, still going strong. The critics told us we 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.880 would never get this facility. The city would never give 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.120 it to a church. Joel, you're wasting your time. God said, overruled. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.200 He made things happen that we could never make happen. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.840 When my father went to be with the Lord, my 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.760 own thoughts told me, Joe, you're not a minister. Nobody's 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.960 gonna listen to you. You can't get up in front 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:09.120 of people. God said, overruled. He's taking me places I've 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:09.840 never dreamed. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.160 When I walked in a jewelry store and met. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.920 Victoria for the first time, every voice said, she'll never 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:17.800 go out with you. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:25.440 God said, overruled. I said, thank you, Jesus. You may be. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.840 Facing challenges that look permanent, dreams that seem impossible you 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:30.760 don't see away. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.120 Don't worry. God has a way. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.600 He knows how to overrule. He controls the whole universe. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.200 In my twenties, I was driving on the freeway. It's 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.320 raining really hard, and I lost control of my car 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.680 and I started spinning around and around. I hit the 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:52.440 inside guardrail and spun back across four lanes of traffic. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.640 At one point I looked up. I could see the 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:00.040 front grill of an eighteen wheeler right before me. I 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.280 was going the wrong direction. I felt like I could 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.360 reach out and touch his bumper. We were so close. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.960 I thought, you know what, that's it. I'm done. Somehow 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.680 he missed me. The next thing I knew, I was 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:17.280 over on the shoulder. The truck driver pulled over and said, boy, you. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.080 Must be living right. I don't know how. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.240 I miss you, but right when I braced to hit you, 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.840 I felt a big gust of wind blow me into 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:27.520 the other land. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.559 That's the God who overrules. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.760 The scripture says, you rescued me from deep waters and 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.560 delivered me from powerful enemies, enemies that were too strong 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:42.880 for me. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.160 I couldn't have stopped that truck. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.280 It was too powerful for me, but it wasn't too 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.720 powerful for our God. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.719 You may not be able to beat. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.960 The cancer on your own, but you're not on your own. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.240 The most high God is ruling in your favor to 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.160 rescue you from deep waters. He's going to deliver you 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.040 from powerful enemies. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:07.800 The lower court may. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.320 Tell you now, I don't think so. Just accept it. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.360 The sickness. The legal problem is too big. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.360 Those people are too strong, too powerful. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.440 God is saying, it's no match for me. I'm about 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.439 to turn things in your favor. I'm about to overrule 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.240 what looked permanent. And instead of dwelling on how big 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.719 your enemies are, start dwelling. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:31.880 On how big your God is. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.000 All through the day, Lord, thank you that you're the 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.920 God who overrules. Thank you that you are judging in 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.640 my favor. Read about a young man. He was at 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.160 home working on his truck. He had it up on jacks. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.640 While he was underneath, something shifted and the truck fell 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:56.040 on him. He was lying there, being crushed. Nobody to 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.200 help him, not able to move, but when the truck 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.000 hid his chin, it knocked his cell phone out and 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.800 somehow pushed the button where Siri came on and said, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:12.240 how can I help you? Barely conscious with a truck 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.439 lying on his chest, he said, Siri called nine to 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.839 one one. She called the paramedics arrived two minutes later, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.800 saved his life. The doctor said another five minutes he 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:24.480 would have been. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.080 Crushed to death. The lower court said, too bad an accident. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.040 You're done. The higher court said, overruled. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.240 It's not your time to go. God, can even use 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:40.000 Siri to save your life. The scripture says, the number 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.760 of your days God will fulfill. The enemy is not 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.280 in control of your life. He can't stop your purpose. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.800 An accident can't stop you, a bad break, a sickness. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:54.720 God has the final say. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.000 If it's not your time to go, if he hasn't 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:58.840 fulfilled your. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.640 Days, then you're not to go. He's going to overrule you. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.480 Remember in the scripture, when Satan wanted to test job, 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.440 he had to ask God for permission. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.760 He couldn't just go in there and. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.920 Do whatever he wanted. That's why we don't have to 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:20.520 live worried, upset, afraid. We are in a controlled environment. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.439 Our father is on the throne. He is the judge. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.360 He has you in the palm of his hand. Nothing 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.760 can stat you away. But sometimes we think it's God 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.360 versus the enemy. But the enemy is not an equal 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:40.160 opposite of God. We have hot, cold, light, darkness, good evil. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.440 Those are equal opposites. But it's not God in the enemy. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:50.080 God created the enemy. God is the creator. Satan is 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.880 a created being. He is a fallen angel. He wasn't 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.360 made in the image of God. You were made in 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.360 the image of God. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:02.280 But if you. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.240 See the enemy as being this powerful force that can 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.640 stop you, control you, determine your destiny, then you are 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.880 giving him power over you that he doesn't have. When 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.200 Jesus came out of the grave, he took away the 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.120 keys of death and hell. He said, all power has 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.360 been given unto me. Now I'm giving it to you. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.880 You are more powerful than any force that's trying to 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.560 stop you. The enemy has already been defeated. We're in 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.120 a fixed fight. We know the final outcome. God says 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.480 he always causes you to triumph. He says he's going 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.439 to judge in your favor. During the Civil War, Ulysses 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.360 Grant was a respected general. One day, he climbed up 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.120 over a mountain looked down in the valley below. Much 0:13:55.160 --> 0:14:00.520 to his surprise, he saw Harrison's army quickly approaching. Grant 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.679 was overcome with fear seeing thousands of troops horses waiting 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:06.280 to attack. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.720 As he stood there with his heart. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.480 Beating so fast, trying to figure out what he was 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.960 going to do. He noticed when Harrison's army saw him, 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.680 they turned around and started to retreat. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.800 His heart quit beating so fast. He calmed down as 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.040 he watched the army ride off into the distance. Grant 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.120 said he learned something that day that he would never forget. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.880 That every adversary I have knows my name, and they 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.160 are more afraid of me than I am of them. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.080 The scripture says. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.240 Greater is he that's in you than he that comes 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:46.640 against you. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.600 You don't have to be afraid of the enemy. He's 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.680 afraid of you. When he looks at you, he doesn't 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:58.400 just see you, He sees who you belonged to. You 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.560 remind him of his defeat, of that day two thousand 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:03.680 years ago. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:08.080 When Christ conquered him. You remind him how he is powerless. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.360 He can rule over you all day long. The good 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.760 news is he's the lower court. What he does is temporary. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.840 When God says overruled, every force of darkness is broken. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:22.320 You need to get ready. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.320 God's about to overrule some things in your life. He's 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:31.440 going to overrule the addictions, overrule the depression. God's going 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.320 to overrule the injustice, the unfair situations. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.000 That's not your destiny. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.120 God has a life of victory for you. This is 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.600 what he did for the Israelites. They had been in 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.120 slavery for four hundred and thirty years now, I'm sure 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.680 they had accepted it, thought, this is our lot in life, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.440 going to work, being mistreated, taking advantage of Most of 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.480 them were born into it. It wasn't their fault. But 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.440 one day God had enough. He said, I have seen 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.360 the afflictions of my people. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.560 I have heard their cries. I have come down to 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:10.680 deliver them. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:15.480 The lower court said they were stuck, but God said, overruled. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.040 This is a new day, no more injustice. Their captors 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:25.040 were bigger, stronger, had more equipment, but God delivered them 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.760 from powerful enemies. God cost the Phaiaoh, not just to 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.000 let them go, but on their way out, Pharaoh's people 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:39.280 gave them their gold, their silver, their jewelry. They could 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.640 have left empty handed. That would have been a great victory, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.680 just to be free. But God said, no, it's payback time. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.320 I'm going to compensate you for what you've been through. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.080 God knows what you're owed, he knows every person that's 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:59.480 done you wrong, every injustice, every bad break. He's not 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.040 just going to bring you out, but he's going to 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.560 pay you back. When he settled your case, You're going 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:11.879 to come out fully compensated, blessed, prosperous, vindicated, honored people 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.879 will know that God has ruled in your favor. I 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.760 know a young lady. She came out of a very 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.480 difficult environment. Her father died when she was six, and 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.520 not long after that, her mother had to go on dialysis. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.600 They were very poor. Most other kids were out playing 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.879 in the neighborhood. She was at home taking care of 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.800 her mother. Twelve years old, She'd walk up to the 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.800 store and buy groceries, cook for the family. She'd get 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.320 her little brother dressed ready for school every day. Being 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.960 at such a disadvantage, it looked like she would miss 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.680 her purpose. But despite these hardships, she kept being her best. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.560 She didn't have a victim mentality. She believed in the 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.080 God who overrules. She excelled in school. She got a 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:04.240 full scholarship to a prestigious university. She got her degree, 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.119 then went on to get her masters. Today she owns 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:13.720 a very successful business. She's happily married, has three beautiful children. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.320 She said, Joel, I never dreamed I would be here. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.199 I'm the first one in my family to get a degree, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.239 the first one to own our own business, and the 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.439 first one to raise my children in church. All the 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.160 odds were against her. She could have become a statistic. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.920 What happened, God said overruled. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.119 He didn't just bring her out, He compensated her. You 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.440 may have situations that put you at a disadvantage. God 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.680 sees it. He knows what you've been through. He knows 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:47.879 what you didn't get. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.520 He knows who left you. Where you are is not 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.560 your final destination. That's the lower court's verdict. The good 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.560 news is our God. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.560 Is in the overruling business. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.800 Your time is coming, Vindication is coming, promotion is coming, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:07.600 Abundance is coming. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.440 Keep being your best, keep honoring God. Like with her. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.520 There is favor in your future that's going to amaze you. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.200 But many of the things we struggle with have been 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.280 passed down in our family line. It's not a coincidence 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.000 that we're tempted in certain areas, having to deal with 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.959 an addiction, depression, a hot temper. Those are spirits that 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.919 keep getting passed down from generation to generation. Just like 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.879 we can pass down physical traits our looks, our size, 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.040 our hair color, we can pass down attitudes, dysfunction, depression. 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.280 The enemy didn't start with you, He started way back 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:55.760 in your family line. In the scripture, Isaac's wife, Rebecca. 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:56.720 Was dishonest. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:01.880 She manipulated her children, her husband to try to get 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.840 her way or Her son, Jacob. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.080 Was just like her. He was a deceiver. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.760 He tricked his brother out of his birthright. Jacob's uncle 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.600 Laban had the same problem. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.040 He was dishonest. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.600 He told Jacob, if you'll work for me for seven years, 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:20.960 I'll give you one of my daughters as your wife. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.200 He did that, Laban said, oh, I changed my mind. 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:25.280 I didn't mean seven years, I. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:26.280 Meant fourteen years. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.320 There was a spirit of deception in their family line 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.359 looked like it would be passed from generation to generation. 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.160 But one day God, in his mercy, said enough is enough. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:44.359 I'm putting an end to this generational curse. Jacob humbled himself. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.679 He admitted he was wrong. God changed him. That was 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.000 the turning point. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.360 Jacob's son Joseph, was just the opposite. He was a 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.160 man of great integrity. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.640 You won't read one negative thing in the scripture about Joe. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.680 Up to him, there was deception, dishonesty, manipulation. But when 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:10.800 it came to Joseph, everything stopped. What happened, God said. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.919 Overruled, this curse is broken. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.840 And some of the things that you're dealing with, things 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.160 that have been passed down. It didn't start with you, 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:21.960 but I believe it's. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:22.960 Going to end with you. 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:28.679 God is saying, I'm about to overrule negative baggage in 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.960 your family line. I'm going to overrule the dysfunction, the addictions, 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.800 the lack and struggle. This is a new day. Freedom 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.800 is coming to your house. Wholeness is coming to your 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:46.359 family line. You're the difference maker. Because you're honoring God. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:47.919 You're going to see. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.680 The God who overrules put a stop to it. 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:55.520 Like with Jacob, that generational curse is being broken. The 0:21:55.600 --> 0:22:00.000 generational blessing is beginning. I talked to a man recently. 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.960 He had struggled with alcohol for over forty years. That's 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.679 all he had known. His dad was an alcoholic, his 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.879 grandfather it was normal to him. He had tried to 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.399 stop many times with no success. But one day he 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.280 was in his car listening to a message and I 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.520 was talking about being free and how that's not your destiny. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.160 He said, he felt something like warm. 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:27.120 Oil being poured all over him. From that day forward, 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.280 he never touched the alcohol, that spirit that had been 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.640 in his family line for generations. Was suddenly broken. 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:40.840 You were created to be free, to live healthy, wholes secure. 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:45.760 Don't get comfortable with dysfunction. Don't settle for things that 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:47.359 are less than God's best. 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:50.520 That's not who you are. Put your faith out there. 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:55.600 Father, Thank you that you're overruling every negative thing that's 0:22:55.640 --> 0:23:00.800 holding me back. God not only overrules what comes against us. 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:06.600 Sometimes he overrules our wrong choices. Without his mercy, we 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:10.800 wouldn't fulfill our destiny. God told Jonah to go to 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:12.240 the city of Nineveh. 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:14.679 He didn't want to go there. He wanted to go 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:16.560 to Tarsius, the other direction. 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:20.920 And what's interesting is God didn't stop him from going 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.840 the wrong way. He didn't stop him from getting on 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:25.639 a boat headed toward Tarsius. 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:30.159 God respects our free will. He allowed all that to happen. 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:35.520 But when the huge storm arose, the crew threw Jonah overboard. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.360 He should have drowned. That should have been the end. 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:43.040 That's when God stepped in and said, overruled. He had 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.879 the fish there to swallow him take him to dry ground. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.360 God didn't stop all of Jonah's mistakes, but he did 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:54.480 stop him from missing his destiny. How many of us 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.440 would not be here If God had not overruled our 0:23:58.480 --> 0:23:59.800 wrong choices. 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.480 You could have married the wrong person. But God said overruled. 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:07.600 He shut that door. That addiction could have taken your life. 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:11.679 God said, overruled, I have a destiny for you. You 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.520 lost your temper, and we're about to tell your boss off. 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:18.280 God said, overruled. He closed your mouth. For some reason. 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:19.000 You couldn't do it. 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:22.040 You wouldn't still have that job if he wasn't the 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:26.119 God who overrules. She may be headed down the wrong 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:29.800 path today, making decisions you know are not the best. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:34.520 Don't be surprised if you encounter the God who overrules. 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.400 He loves you too much to let you miss your purpose. 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:43.000 The scripture talks about the mercies of God, not singular 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:48.399 pearl mercies. Again and again God shows us mercy frings 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:50.879 you had grown up, you used to party with. 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:54.119 Some of them may not still be here. They didn't 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:56.879 make it. That could have been you, but the God 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:00.840 who overrules stepped in here. You are free, healthy. 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:05.960 You could have had a nervous breakdown, buckled under all 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.200 the pressure, but when you thought you couldn't take it anymore, 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:11.760 the God who overrules. 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:14.080 Put a stop to it. Now you're stronger than ever. 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:16.959 Some of the people you grew up with, if they 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:23.360 could see you now in church, honoring God, clean, free, blessed, kind, generous, 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:25.840 they'd be so shocked you'd have to pick them up 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:29.560 off the floor. It's all because of the God who overrules. 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:35.080 Jesus said to Peter, Satan has come to sift you 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.520 like weed. But Peter, I have prayed for you to 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:40.280 strengthen you so your. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:41.280 Faith will not fail. 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:45.280 Jesus was saying, Peter, the enemy's coming against you to 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:48.119 try to distract you, discourage you to get your off course. 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:51.720 But don't worry, Peter. I'm praying for you. I'm going 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.879 to strengthen you. I'm not going to let you be defeated. 0:25:55.119 --> 0:26:01.320 I'm the God who overrules. When life gets tough against you, 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:02.480 you're not on your own. 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:04.240 You have an advantage. 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:07.879 The scripture says, Jesus is at the right hand of 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:12.360 the Father right now, praying for you. It's one thing 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:15.280 to have people pray for you, friends stand in faith, 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:19.040 But when you have the risen Savior praying, you cannot 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:24.400 be defeated. Two thousand years ago, Jesus hung on the cross. 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:28.520 He was beaten by soldiers mocked, ridiculed. It looked like 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:32.119 it was over all of Hell was rejoicing. But in 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:36.000 the heavens, God didn't panic. He didn't say what happened? 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:40.159 My plan didn't work out? He simply said, overruled. The 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:44.080 lower court said Jesus was done, defeated. The higher court said, 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.880 I don't think so. On the third day, Jesus came 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:51.360 out of the grave. He said, I am he that lives. 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:56.920 I was dead, but now I am alive forevermore. If 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:02.240 God can overrule death, the forces of darkness, don't you 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:07.480 think he can overrule what's holding you back. Those obstacles 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:10.520 may look permanent, but in your spirit you need to 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:14.800 hear God saying overruled. That dysfunction may have been in 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:16.800 your family line for generations. 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:18.520 This is a new day. 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:21.720 The God who overrules is about to put a stop 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:25.959 to it. I believe and declare. God is delivering you 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:27.560 from powerful enemies. 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.680 Right now. He is judging in your favor. What stopped 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:33.800 you in the past will stop you no more. 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:39.680 You are coming into freedom, wholeness, abundance, victory, the fullness of. 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.680 Your destiny in Jesus' name. 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:45.120 If you receive it, can you say him in Today. 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.080 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:51.439 the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me, 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:56.200 just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 0:27:57.400 --> 0:28:01.360 Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:05.240 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:08.720 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:12.399 God first place. 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