The Power of I AM

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.280 Hi, this is Joel on Wednesdays. We bring you the 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:49.480 best of I hope you enjoy the podcast. God bless 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.920 you so joy to come into your homes. We love you. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.960 If you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.320 a part of one of our services. I promise you 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.760 we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so much 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.400 for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. I 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.840 like to start with something funny, and I heard about 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.720 this ninety two year old man. He wasn't feeling up 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.239 to paron. He went to the doctor for a cheka. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.919 A few days later, the doctor saw him out walking 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.200 in the park. He had this beautiful young lady by 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.160 his side, and he seemed as happy as convened. The 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.560 doctor said, Wow, you sure are feeling a lot better, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.360 aren't you. He said, yes, Doctor, I'm just taking your orders. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.120 You said, get a hot mama and be cheerful. The 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.360 doctor said, I didn't say that. I said you got 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:37.360 a heart murmur. Be careful. Hold up your bible. Say 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.480 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.920 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.440 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.600 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.440 I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.480 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.160 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.480 the power of I am. What follows these two simple 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.000 words will determine what kind of life you live. I 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:14.280 am blessed. I am strong, I am healthy or I 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.320 am slow. I am unattractive, I am a terrible mother. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.280 The I ams that are coming out of your mouth 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.720 will bring either success or failure. All through the day. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.200 The power of I am as at work. We make 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.080 a mistake. I am so clumsy. We look in the mirror, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.520 I am so old, We see somebody very talented. I 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.960 am so average. We get caught in traffic. I am 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.120 so unlucky. Many times we use the power of I 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.560 am against us. We don't realize how it's affecting our future. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.680 Here's the principle. What follows the I am will always 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.960 come looking for you. When you say I am so clumsy. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.840 Clumsy comes looking for you, I am so old. Wrinkles 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:08.200 come looking for you, I am so overweighted. Calories come 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.320 looking for you. It's just like you're inviting them. Whatever 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.640 you follow the I AM with, you're handing it an invitation, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:20.200 opening the door, giving it permission to be in your life. Now, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.320 the good news is you get to choose what follows 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.960 the IM. When you go through the days saying I 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.600 am blessed, blessings come looking for you, I am talented. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.160 Talent comes looking for you. You may not feel up 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.679 to par, but when you say I am healthy, health 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:43.000 starts hitting your way, I am strong. Strength starts tracking 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.400 you down. You're inviting that into your life. That's why 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.520 you have to be careful what follows the I am. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.599 Don't ever say I am so unlucky, I never get 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.400 any good breaks. You're inviting disappointments. I am so broke, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.680 I am so in debt. You are inviting struggle. You're 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.799 inviting lack. You need to send out some new invitations. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.120 Get up in the morning and invite good things into 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.600 your life. I am blessed, I am strong, I am talented, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.279 I am disciplined, I am focused, I am prosperous. When 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.960 you talk like that, talent get summoned by Almighty God. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.359 Go find that person. Health, strength, abundance, discipline starts heading 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.520 your way. But how many people, when they wake up 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.600 in the morning look in the mirror. The first thing 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.520 they say, I am so old, I am so wrinkled, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.920 I am so worn out. You are inviting oldness, You're 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.440 inviting fatigue. Do us all a favor. Stop inviting that. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.440 When you get up in the morning, look in the mirror. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.800 Instead of complaining, you should be saying, I am fearfully 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.640 and wonderfully made, I am attractive, I am getting younger. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.640 You talk like that, and God will renew your youth. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.360 I know people, the older they get, the more attractive 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.160 they are. A lot has to do with our attitude. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.040 The other day, our daughter Alexandra had a copy of 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.839 my first book from two thousand and four, and she 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.599 was comparing the picture to my new book that was 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.520 just released. She said, Daddy, you look better now than 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.479 you did back then. I said, what would you like 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.440 me to buy you? And I was with my college 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.040 roommate last week. He said, Joel, what are you doing. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.400 You're getting taller, You're growing it. I said, I received that. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.080 I didn't want to tell him that he's getting shorter. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.880 But when you go around saying I am being renewed 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.440 in my youth, I am full of health, vitality, wholeness, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.560 that's one of the best anti aging treatments you could 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.160 ever take. My mother's a great example of this. I 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.960 mentioned how she just turned seventy eight. She still looks 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:05.719 It's fantastic. She's still strong, still energetic, still beautiful. But 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.599 when you get up in the morning, don't talk about 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.200 how old you are, how bad you look. Dare to say, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:16.760 I am young, I am energetic, I am vibrant, I 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.880 am radiant, I am fresh. Some of you women have 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:25.120 never once said I am beautiful. You're so focused on 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.680 your flaws and what you don't like about yourself and 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.800 how you wish you had more here and less there. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.000 And I'm not pointing, but you know where I mean. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.720 When you say I am beautiful, Beauty comes looking for you, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.480 Youth comes looking for you, Freshness comes looking for you. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.600 Nobody can do this for you. It's got to come 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.840 out of your own mouth. Listen, ladies, don't go around 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.200 telling your husbands how unattractive you are. You should never 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.400 put yourself down, and especially don't put yourself down in 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.040 front of your own husband. You are his prize. To him, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.720 you're the most beautiful woman in the world. Well, why 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.040 would you want to tell him anything differently, The last 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.600 thing he needs to hear is how bad you think 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.440 you look. Don't put those thoughts in his mind. It's 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.440 not going to do him nor you any good to 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.920 discredit yourself if you keep telling him how bad you look. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.480 One day he may believe you. But when you say 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:32.199 I am beautiful, not only does beauty, youth, freshness starts 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.000 coming your way, but on the inside, your spirit person 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.240 comes alive. Your self image begins to improve, and you'll 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.360 start carrying yourself like you're someone special. You want drag 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.680 through the day feeling less than inferior. You'll have that 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:52.439 spring in your steps that you go girl attitude. Beauty 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.440 is not in how thin or tall you are, how 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.839 perfect you look. Beauty is in being who God made 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:04.480 you to be with for this, if you're a size four, great, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.760 If you're a size twenty four, great, take what you 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.520 have and make the most of it. God made you 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.000 like you are on purpose. He gave you your looks, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.800 your height, your skin color, your nose, your personality. Nothing 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:25.200 about you is by accident. You didn't get overlooked, you 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.960 didn't get left out. God said in Ephesians, you are 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:35.120 my masterpiece. Instead of going around down on yourself, feeling unattractive, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.920 too tall, too short, not enough of this, too much 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.120 of that. No, dare to get up in the morning 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.720 and say I am a masterpiece. I am created in 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.600 the image of Almighty God. David said in ps On 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.559 one thirty nine, God, I praise you because you have 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.760 made me in an amazing way. What you have done 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:02.719 is wonderful. Notice David's as he was saying, not in 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.200 pride but in praise to God, I am wonderful, I 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:12.680 am amazing. I am a masterpiece that goes against human nature. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.600 Most of us think there's nothing amazing about me, nothing wonderful. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.520 I'm just average, I'm just ordinary. Or the fact is 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.800 there is nothing ordinary about you. You have a fingerprint 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.400 that nobody else has. There will never be another you. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.280 Even if you have a twin somebody that looks exactly 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.520 like you, they don't have your same personality, your same goals, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.240 your same fingerprints. You are an original. When God made you, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.120 he threw away the mold. But as long as you 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.839 go around thinking I'm just average, Joel, I'm just one 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.600 of the billions of people on the earth. Nothing special 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.160 about me. The wrong I am can keep you from 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.600 rising higher. I wonder what would happen if, all through 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.320 the day, not in front of other people, but in privacy, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.680 in the shower, driving to work underneath our breath, instead 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.439 of being down on ourselves and discrediting who we are 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.240 and focusing on all of our flaws, what would happen 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.800 if we would be bold like David to say, I 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.439 am amazing, I am wonderful, I am valuable, I am 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.960 a masterpiece. I am a child of the most High God. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.760 You talk like that, and amazing comes chasing you down, 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.440 Awesome starts heading in your direction. You won't have that 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:39.120 week defeated. I'm just average mentality. No, you'll carry yourself 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:43.160 like a king, like a queen, not in pride, not 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.360 being better than somebody, but with a quiet confidence, with 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.960 a knowing that you've been handpicked by the creator of 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.600 the universe and you have something amazing to offer this world. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.679 That's what happened to a lady in the scripture named Sarah. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.040 She had to change. I Am God promised Sarah and 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.400 her husband Abraham that they would have a baby. But 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.680 Sarah was eighty years old, way past the child bearing years, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.200 and back in those days, if a wife didn't give 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.920 her husband a child she couldn't conceive for some reason, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.120 even if it was the husband's fault, the wife was 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.960 seen as a failure. She was looked down on greatly. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.960 There was a sense of shame for not being able 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.000 to have a baby. And this is how Sarah felt. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.800 She was eighty years old, never had a baby. She 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.920 felt like she had let Abraham down. Her self esteem 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.880 is so low. I can imagine some of her i ams. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:47.320 I am a failure, I am inferior, I am not 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:52.200 good enough, I am unattractive. Now she's got this promise 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.080 that as an older woman, she's going to have a baby, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.280 and God knew that it would never come to pass 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.920 unless he could convince to change her i ams. It 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.000 was so imperative that she had this new mindset. God 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:13.640 actually changed her name from Sarah to Sarah. Sarah means princess. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.079 Now every time someone said good morning Sarah, they were saying, 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.240 good morning, princess. How are you, Sarah? How are your princes? 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.520 Would you pass me the ketchup? Sarah? Would you pass 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.360 me the ketchup? Princess? She heard this over and over, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.840 and those words got on the inside and began to 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.680 change her self image. She went from I am a 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:41.160 failure to I am a princess. From I am unattractive 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.280 to I am beautiful, from I am ashamed to I 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.480 am crowned by Almighty God. Instead of hanging her head 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:54.720 in defeat in embarrassment, she started holding her head up high. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.600 From I'm not good enough to I am a child 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:02.160 of the Most High God inferior to I am fearfully 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.920 and wonderfully made her new attitude was I am amazing, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.960 I am wonderful, I am a masterpiece. And ladies, like Sarah, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.400 you may have had a lot of things in life 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.760 try to push you down. Bad breaks, disappointments, maybe even 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.320 people have tried to make you feel like you just 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.880 don't measure up. You're not quite attractive enough. You could 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.520 easily let that seed get on the inside and ruin 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.160 your sense of value, cause you to live inferior. But 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.280 God is saying to you what he said to Sarah, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.479 I want you to change your name to princes, not physically, 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.480 but in your attitude. You got to shake off the 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.560 negative things people have said about you, shake off the 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:51.640 low self esteem, the inferiority, and start carrying yourself like 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.960 a princess. Start walking like a princess, Start talking like 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.600 a princess, Start thinking like a princess, Start waving like 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:04.240 a prince. Insists instead of I am inferior, I am 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.840 less than no, I am one of a kind. I 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.640 am handpicked by Almighty God. I am valuable. I am 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.360 a masterpiece. When you get up in the morning, don't 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.480 focus on all your flaws. Look in the mirror and 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.600 dare to say I am beautiful, I am young, I 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.440 am vibrant, I am confident, I am secure. You may 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.400 have had some disappointments, people may have tried to push 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.600 you down. But quit telling yourself you're all washed up. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.160 Do like Sarah and say I am royalty, I am 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:44.320 crowned with favor. I am excited about my future. This 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.800 princess spirit got on the inside of Sarah. It changed 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.320 her self image. Now I've learned, you've got to change 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.280 on the inside before you'll see change on the outside. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.720 At one hundred years old, against all odds, she gave 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.160 birth to that baby. The promise came to pass. My 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.480 question today is what kind of i ams are coming 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.680 out of your mouth. I am victorious, I am blessed, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.440 I am talented, I am anointed. When you have the 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.520 right i ams, you're inviting the goodness of God some 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.320 of you. If you would just change the I am, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.200 you would go to a new level. Words have creative power. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.840 With your words. You can bless your future or you 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:37.200 can curse your future. Words are like electricity used the 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.520 right way, they can be very helpful. It can give 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.440 us lights and air conditioning, all kinds of good things. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:48.120 But electricity used the wrong way can be very dangerous. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.400 It can harm you, it could even kill you. Same 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:56.360 way with our words. Proverbs says life and death are 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.320 in the power of our tongue. It's up to you 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.920 to chew use what follows the I am. My encouragement 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:09.120 is never say negative things about yourself. Most of us 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.399 would never go up to another person, at least to 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.280 their face, and criticize them. Yet we have no problem 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:20.320 criticizing ourselves. I am so slow, I am so unattractive, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.840 I am so undisciplined. That is cursing your future. Do 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.919 yourself a favor and zip that up. We have enough 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:34.280 in life against us already. Don't be against yourself. I 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.800 had a friend I used to play basketball with, and 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.680 when he would miss an important shot, he would say, 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.680 I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot, three 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.879 or four times. I heard that month after month. He 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.840 didn't realize it, but idiot was coming looking for him. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.120 I hate to say it, but I think it found him. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.200 If you go around saying I am so dumb, it 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.880 may not be good English, but dumbness is coming your way. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.879 I am so unattractive, I am so plain. Ugliness says, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.560 I hear somebody calling my name. Use your words to 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.639 bless your future, not curse your future. The scripture says, 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.639 let the weak say I am strong. No, it's just 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.960 the opposite. Not I am so tired, I am so 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.399 run down. That's calling in the wrong things. Let the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.480 poor say I am well off, not I am broke, 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.840 I am so in death. Let the six say I 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.879 am healthy, I am improving, I am getting better and better. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.480 See it says in Romans four eighteen to call the 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.199 things that are not as if they already were. That 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.960 simply means don't talk about the way you are, talk 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.800 about the way you want to be. You're struggling in 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.840 your finances, don't go around saying, oh, man, business is 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.879 so slow, the economy is so down, it's never gonna 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.480 work out. That's calling the things that are as if 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.879 they will always be that way. That's just describing the situation. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.040 By faith. You've got to say, I am blessed, I 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:14.720 am successful, I am surrounded by God's favor. I asked 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.560 a young man after church last week how he was 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.440 doing in high school. He said, oh, Joel, I'm doing okay. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.320 I'm just a C student. Come to find out. One 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.600 of his teachers back in elementary school years ago, told 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.280 him he was a C student, and he let that 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.440 seed take root. I told him what I'm telling you. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.719 As long as you're saying I am a C student, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.240 you're not going to make as you're calling in the c's, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.120 and those c's will come find you wherever you go. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.960 If you're not careful, you'll make a C in homeroom, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.600 a C in lunch, a C inpe Change the I am. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.160 I am an a student, I am smart, I am 0:19:54.200 --> 0:20:00.000 full of wisdom. I am a good learner. Some of you, 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.719 like this young man, you've allowed what somebody said about 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.560 you to hold you back. A coach, a teacher, a parent, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.720 an ex spouse. They planted these negative seeds of what 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:16.160 you cannot do. You're not smart enough, you're not talented enough, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.680 you're not disciplined enough. You're not attractive enough. You'll always 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.919 make sees, you'll always be mediocre, you'll always struggle with 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.960 your weight. Don't get rid of those lives. That is 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.160 not who you are. You are who God says you are. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.120 People may have tried to push you down and tell 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.240 you what you can't become. Let that go in one 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.000 ear and out the other ear. What somebody said about 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:44.480 you doesn't determine your destiny God does. You need to 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.919 know not only what you are, but you need to 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.400 know what you are not. In other words, I am 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.680 not who people say I am. I am who God 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.120 says I am. I am not to tell I am 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.720 the head. I am not a borrower, I am a lender. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.920 I am not cursed. I am blessed. Like this young man. 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.280 Somebody may have spoken negative words over you, even when 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.840 you were younger. But know this, before anyone could put 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.600 a curse on you, God put a blessing on you 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:20.000 before you were formed in your mother's womb. God knew 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:24.639 you and he approved you. When God made you, he 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.680 stepped back and said, I like that. That was good. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.520 Another masterpiece. He stamped his approval on you. Other people 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.800 may try to disapprove you. Don't go around feeling less 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.320 than feeling inferior. Our attitude should be I am approved 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.640 by Almighty God. I am accepted. I am a masterpiece. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.720 When you talk like that, the seeds of greatness God's 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.440 placed on the inside will begin to spring forth. See, 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.920 you have gifts and talents that you've not yet tapped into. 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:00.840 There is a treasure on the inside through life. The 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.479 enemy will do his best to try to keep it 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.919 pushed down. He doesn't want us to reach our full potential. 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.879 That's why there are forces constantly trying to make us 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:17.320 feel intimidated, inferior, unqualified. If you're going to fulfill your destiny, 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:20.760 you've got to shake off the negative voices, shake off 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.720 the thoughts that are telling you I am unable, I 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:30.240 am unqualified. No, don't invite weakness in. Don't give intimidation 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:36.040 an invitation. You may feel unqualified, but before you were born, 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:40.600 God equipped you, He empowered you. You are not lacking anything. 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:45.040 God has already stamped his approval on you. People may 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.639 try to push you down, but when you know God 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:51.600 has approved you, you realize I don't need other people's approval. 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:56.600 I've been equipped, empowered, anointed by the creator of the universe. 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.879 I know a man he was told his high school 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.840 counselor that he wasn't very smart. He should focus on 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.240 the lowest skilled job that he could find. And I'm 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.000 sure the counselor meant well, but he didn't know what 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:14.480 was on the inside. He didn't see the seeds of 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.080 greatness God had planted in this young man. As a 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:22.359 high school student, his IM was distorted. I am not 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.639 up to par I am not smart, I am very averaging. 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.960 He didn't realize he was inviting that into his life, 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:32.439 and sure enough it showed up. After high school, he 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.520 got a job at the local factory, and he stayed 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:40.080 at the lowest level year after year after year. One 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.920 day the factory closed down and he went across town 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.560 and applied at another factory. This company had a policy 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:49.639 that you had to take an IQ test. He took 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:53.200 the test, and he scored the highest in the company's 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:56.840 sixty three year history. His IQ came back at a 0:23:56.920 --> 0:24:00.720 genius level. He went on to start his own own business, 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:05.560 and he invented and patented two very successful products. Today 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:10.000 he's extremely blessed what happened. He changed his I am. 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:14.760 Could it be what someone has told you is keeping 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:17.960 you from God's best? Could it be that the wrong 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:21.520 I am is keeping you from rising higher and reaching 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:25.640 your full potential? Do like he did, change the I am. 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:30.359 Don't let what somebody has spoken over you determine your destiny. 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.280 Get in agreement with God. Know what you are, and 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:37.760 know what you are not. I am not lacking, I 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.960 am not averaged. I am not inferior. I am equipped, 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:46.000 I am empowered, I am anointed, I am wise. I 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:50.200 am a masterpiece in the book of numbers. Moses sent 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:53.600 twelve men in to spy out the promised land. After 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:56.960 forty days, ten of them came back and said, Moses, 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.399 we don't have a chance. The people are here huge 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:05.119 compared to them. We felt like we were grasshoppers. Notice 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:09.080 their I ams. I am weak, I am inferior, I 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:15.240 am intimidated, I am afraid. What happened? Fear, intimidation, inferiority 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:19.080 came knocking at the door. The other two spies, Joshua 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:23.440 and Caleb, came back with a different report. They said, Moses, yes, 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:26.320 the people are big, but we know our God is 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:29.840 much bigger. We are well able. Let us go in 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.680 and take the land at once. Notice there I am 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:38.040 was just the opposite. I am strong, I am equipped, 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:41.560 I am confident. I am more than a conquer What's 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:46.240 interesting is the negative report from the ten spies spread 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:50.040 like wildfire throughout the rest of the camp. Before long, 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:55.120 some two million people were intimidated and afraid. Nobody even 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:58.399 paid attention to Joshua and Caleb the report of faith. 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.879 Here's what I've learned. A negative report always spreads faster 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:06.760 than a positive report. And when people are murmuring, complaining, 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:10.080 talking defeat, be on guard. Make sure you don't let 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.800 the wrong I am take root. These ten Spies went 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.399 on to say, Moses, why did you even bring us 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:20.080 out here? We're going to die in the wilderness. Our children, 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:23.639 our wives, they're going to be taken as plunder. God 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:27.400 answered back something very powerful. He said in numbers fourteen 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.760 twenty eight. I will do for you exactly what you 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:35.200 have said. You said you're going to die in the wilderness, 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:38.520 so you will die in the wilderness. God saying the 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:42.000 same thing to us, I'm going to do exactly what 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:46.560 you've been saying. Don't ever say I'm weak, I'm intimidated, 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:50.320 I'm inferior. Friends, the wrong I am can keep you 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:54.040 from your destiny. In the scripture, have you ever heard 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:57.639 of a man named Sether, a man named Gaddy, a 0:26:57.680 --> 0:27:00.560 man named Schafith. Never heard of them? You know why? 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:03.719 They were some of the ten Spies. They were some 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:06.480 of the ones that never made it into the Promised Land. 0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:10.439 The fact is they were called to be a history maker. 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:14.280 They had seeds of greatness on the inside, but the 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:17.760 wrong i am kept them from really making their mark. 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:21.199 Don't let that be you. You may be facing some 0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:26.080 major obstacles. My challenge is be a Joshua, be a Caleb. 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:29.480 I am strong, I am confident, I am equipped, I 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:32.840 am more than a conqueror. I am well able. Make 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:35.760 sure you have the right i ams coming out of 0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:39.960 your mouth. Joshua and Caleb were the only two from 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:43.080 that whole group to ever make it into the Promised Land. 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.399 It would do us all good to make a list 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.240 of a dozen or two of these i ams and 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:52.520 read over them all through the day. Get them down 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:55.800 in your spirit, meditate on them. They may not all 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:58.600 be true right now, but you have to call the 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:02.040 things that are not as if they already were. I 0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:06.800 am blessed, I am prosperous, I am free, I am talented, 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:10.840 I am young, I am beautiful, I am attractive. Remember 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:14.200 what follows. The i am is going to come looking 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:17.440 for you. If you will invite the right things into 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:20.879 your life, the creator of the universe will breathe in 0:28:20.920 --> 0:28:24.200 your direction. Now I believe and declare you will overcome 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:28.639 every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and you will become everything 0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:31.359 that God's created you to be. Amen. Do you receive 0:28:31.359 --> 0:28:36.320 it today? We've never liked to close our broadcast without 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:39.000 giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:42.400 your life. Would you pray with me, say Lord Jesus, 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:48.160 I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:52.160 make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:55.240 that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:58.200 in a good Bible based church. 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