The Promise Is In You

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Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.800 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.840 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.880 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:48.000 your life. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:56.559 Well, God bless you. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.080 We're here at the Chicago White Sox Say with the 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.880 finest people in all of Chicago right here us. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.160 Ellular Field for a night of hope. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.280 We've been having a great time and just appreciate you 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.480 again coming out, appreciates you tuning in. I want to 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.919 talk to you tonight about how the promise is in 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.240 you God has called each one of us to do 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.920 something great. We were never meant to live an average, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.040 mediocre life. We were created to leave our mark on 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.200 this generation. One hundred years from now, people should look 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.040 back at you and me and say, wow, they were 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:37.080 history makers. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.040 They were world changers. They made a difference. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.600 But if that's going to happen, you have to realize 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.120 you are a person of destiny. Almighty God breeds his 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.440 life into you. You are not here by accident. Before 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:53.239 you were born. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.560 God knew you and planned out all your days. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.600 And the good news is God has already equipped you 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.160 with everything you need to fulfill your destiny. He has 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.960 solutions to problems you haven't even had. There is no 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.959 obstacle too big, no dream you can accomplish, no enemy 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.000 you cannot defeat. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.760 The power that is in. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.839 You is greater than any power that will come against you. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.280 Now you've got to put your shoulders back, hold your 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.359 head up high. You are not weak, defeated, lacking limited. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:33.920 You are strong, equipped, empowered, anointed, a child of the 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:38.600 Most High God. So often we look at others and think, Wow, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.960 they're so amazing, and I'm so ordinary. My cousin is 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.440 so beautiful, but I'm so plain. My coworker is so smart, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.560 yet I'm so average. No, they may be amazing in 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.320 certain areas, but can I tell you there's something amazing 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.600 about you. You are talented, you are attractive. You have 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.440 been fearfully and wonderfully made. God doesn't want us to 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.960 go around always just celebrating others, cheering them on. God 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.840 wants you to be celebrated. You are not second class. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.760 You didn't get left out when God was handing out 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.440 the gifts, the talents, the looks. You have what you 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.839 need for the race that you're in now. Don't go 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.080 through life with the wrong image on the inside. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:28.680 You are not ordinary. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.680 You have been hand picked by the creator of the universe. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.760 The scripture says you didn't choose God, but He chose you. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.640 He has placed seeds of greatness on the inside of you. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.400 There's something you can do to leave your mark on 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.200 this generation. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.240 There's something you can excel in. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.920 You can be a great business person, a great school teacher, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.600 a great home builder. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.480 You got to stir up what's on the inside. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.640 Don't settle for mediocrity when God's put greatness in you. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.640 Now you say joel ife I just had more talent. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.960 I just had a different personality. No, you have exactly 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.240 what you need. You just have to see yourself the 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.960 right way. I read where Back during World War two, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.920 the famous actress Betty Grable was known. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.160 For her beautiful legs. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.720 She had them insured for a million dollars. That was 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.520 unheard of back then. A pair of legs worth a 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.480 million dollars. Can I show you another pair of million 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:32.240 dollar legs? 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.479 Just look down at your own. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.000 If somebody offered you a million dollars to buy your legs, not. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:39.920 One of you would do it. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.719 A few years ago, a man lost his arm in 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.919 an accident. The court awarded him eleven million dollars for 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:48.760 that arm. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.480 Look at your arm, it's worth eleven million. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.159 In another city, a young lady was in a city 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.440 bus and she got hurt, injured her back, and lost 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.560 her ability to work, and the city awarded her twenty 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.560 million dollars. Think about it, Just those three things and 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.960 you're already worth thirty three million dollars. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:09.080 You're starting to. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.480 Feel better about yourself, aren't you. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:12.040 You've got to. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:17.640 Recognize what you have. God calls you his masterpiece. You 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.040 can do something great. Some of You are always celebrating others, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.160 but God is saying it's time to celebrate yourself. There's 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.800 something special about you. For many years, I cheered my 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.039 father on. Daddy was my hero as a little boy. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.440 We used to travel to different cities and I'd see 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.839 my father up on the platform speaking to thousands of people. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.839 He was so warm and friendly. Everybody loved him. I 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.640 was so proud that he was my father. In the 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.679 back of my mind, I thought I could. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:51.279 Never do that. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.599 He's so gifted, he's so talented. After I came back 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.520 from college, I worked seventeen years with my parents behind 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.840 the scenes the church doing the television production. And again, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.960 week after week, I'd see my father on the platform, ministering, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.000 making a difference, doing something great. I would do my 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.640 best to make my father look good, make sure the 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.000 camera angles were just right and the lighting was just perfect. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.000 I would even go over to his house on Saturday 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.800 night and pick him out a suit and tie to 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.400 where the next morning for television at the church services. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.240 I wanted to make my dad look good. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.560 As my father got older, people would say, Geel, what's 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.560 going to happen when your dad goes to be with 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.840 the Lord, who's going to pastor the church. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.560 My dad had never raised anybody up. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.400 He'd tried many times to get me up to minister, 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:43.800 but I didn't think this. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.120 Was in me. I was always too quiet, too reserved. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.240 But when my dad died in nineteen ninety nine, all 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.640 of a sudden, I had this strong desire to step 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.480 up and pastor the church. I'd never ministered before, I'd 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.440 never been to seminary. Yet deep down I heard a 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.360 still small voice saying, Joel, you've spent your whole life 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:07.600 celebrating others. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.440 Now it's time for you to be celebrating. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.040 It's time for you to step in to a new 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.320 level of your destiny. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:15.000 Now. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.280 I always knew that. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.560 God would take care of the church, but I never 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.120 dreamed it would be through me. I thought the promise 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.120 would happen some other way, But I discovered the promise 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.560 was in me. I believe God is saying the same 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.720 thing to you. You've celebrated others. Now it's time to 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.679 celebrate yourself. It's time for you to shine. It's time 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.840 for you to step in to a new level of 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.840 your destiny. Friends, there is a seed on the inside 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.120 just waiting to flourish. You may not feel like you 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.880 could do it, but God would not have given you 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.200 the opportunity unless he had already equipped and empowered you. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:55.720 You have everything you need. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.920 One time, God told Moses to go speak to Pharaoh. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.360 Moses said, God, I can't do that. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:03.120 I stutter. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.360 Let me take erin my brother to speak for me. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.080 God said, in effect, Moses, that's not necessary. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.120 I've put the promise in you. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.520 Moses begged and begged, and finally God said okay. When 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.880 they were standing before Pharah, just when Aaron was about 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.840 to speak, something came. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:23.840 All over Moses. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.640 He stepped up and said, wait a minute, Aaron, this 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.720 is my time, this is my moment. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.040 The promise is in me. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.320 He looked at Pharaoh and said, let God's people go. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.800 The scripture says they both spoke to Pharah. I believe 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.280 Moses walked out that day knowing, I don't need anybody 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.800 to speak for me. I'm anointed, I'm equipped, I'm empowering. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:46.920 In the same way. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.000 God has put in you everything you need to fulfill 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.280 your destiny. Don't you dare sit back and think, Oh, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.520 they're so great, they're so amazing. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.480 I could never do that. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.000 No step up and become all odds created you to be. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.360 I heard about this minister before the service. He handed 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.280 a man a one hundred dollar bill and asked him 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.880 to secretly place that in his wife's bible, make sure 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:12.760 she didn't see it. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.000 The man agreed. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.719 During his sermon, he asked this woman to stand up. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.560 They were all friends. He said to the lady, do 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.840 you trust me? She said yes, I do. He said, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.400 will you do what I asked? She said yes, I will. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.640 He said, then open your bible and give me a 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.040 one hundred dollar bill. She said, oh, I'm so sorry. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.760 I don't have one hundred dollar bill. He said, do 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:36.480 you trust me? 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.520 She said yes I do. Will you do what I asked? Yes, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.320 I will. Then open your bible and hand me a 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:43.400 one hundred dollar bill. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.520 Reluctantly, she opened her bible, and much does her surprise, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.600 she saw the money. She shook her head and said, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.760 how did it get there? He smiled and said, I 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.800 put it in there. In the same way, God will 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.120 never ask you for something without first putting. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:01.480 It in you. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.320 When God gives you a dream, when you have that 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.160 desire and you know you're supposed to take that step 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:08.640 of faith. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.520 You may feel unqualified, like. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.400 You don't have the wisdom, the know how, the ability, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.079 But if you'll dare take that step, you'll. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.560 Discover things in you that you never knew you had. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.280 I never knew this gift was in me, never knew 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:25.760 that I could get up in front of people. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.080 I wonder how many gifts are in you right now, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.760 just waiting to be released, if you'll dare step up 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.800 and believe that you have what it takes. This is 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.040 where Sarah, Abraham's wife, almost missed it. She thought the 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.120 promise would come through somebody else. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:45.840 When God told her that she was going to do 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:46.600 something great. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.240 She was going to have a child at an old 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.800 age and her husband would become the father of many nations. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.000 She said, God, that's impossible. I'm eighty years old. This's 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.760 never happened before. I must not be hearing your right. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.319 She took matters into her own hands. She had Abraham 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.600 get hooked up with one of her maids, and they 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.439 had a son. Sarah looked and said, there he is 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.920 the child of promise. God said no, no, Sarah. I 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.280 didn't say the promise was in somebody else. I said, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.720 the promise is in you. You spent your whole life 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.000 celebrating others, Sarah, but now it's. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.319 Time for you to be celebrating. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.160 You're going to give birth. You're going to have that baby. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.400 You're gonna do something great. You're gonna be a history maker. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.440 Sure enough, some twenty years later, she gave birth to 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.920 that baby. The promise was fulfilled in. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:39.600 The same way. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.240 What God has placed in your heart is not going 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.560 to come to pass through your neighbor, through your cousin, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.520 through your coworker, through your friend, through your parents. God 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:55.120 is saying I've anointed you, I've equipped you, I breathed 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.679 my life into you. Now quit looking for somebody else. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.280 Quit thinking that you don't have what it takes. You've 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.199 been chosen by the creator of the universe. You don't 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.880 need anyone else to give birth to the promise that. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.040 God put in your heart. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.760 Doctor Todd Price is a friend of mine and a 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.440 member of Lakewood, and he recently told how he grew 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.440 up very poor, didn't look like he had much of 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.360 a future, but from the time he was small he 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.839 had a deep desire to help children in need. One day, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.640 he saw a program on television about how you could 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.240 sponsor a child for fifteen dollars a month that lived 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.120 around the world, and he didn't have any money, but 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.240 his heart was so moved he started mowing lawns in 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.079 the neighborhood, doing yard work to raise the money. From 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.400 the time he was twelve years old, he started sponsoring 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.000 a little girl that lived halfway around the world. What 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.480 caused him to do that? Why did he have that compassion? 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.200 It was the promise God put in him. It was 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.640 a seed of greatness just waiting to be developed. Doctor 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.920 Price wasn't raised in a religious home, but every night 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.079 before he'd go to bed, he'd say, God, please send some. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.240 Wealthy person to help these children in need. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.360 He was able to go to college, and in the 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.320 summer he would take trips overseas with a group of 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.720 doctors to treat the needy children. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.240 When he looked in their eyes, he would pray even 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:28.560 more earnestly. 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.960 God, please send some wealthy person to help these children. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.440 He went to medical school, continued going overseas, started his 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:38.560 own practice. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:39.960 One of his main. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:44.160 Suppliers heard how he helped needy children and they asked 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:49.960 if he needed some free medical supplies, vaccinations, antibotics, things 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:50.200 like that. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.800 He said, sure, I do. He started taking a couple 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:53.960 of suitcases full. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.880 Of medicines on each trip. He grew to where he 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.760 had to put them in boxes and have it shipped. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.200 Eventually it got so large he was shipping huge containers 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:08.360 of medicines overseas, all the while praying, God, please send 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.640 some wealthy person to help these children in need. In 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.760 the last three years, doctor Price's Medical Missions organization has 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:22.000 treated over fifty million children in twenty one countries. He 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.720 has provided over five hundred million dollars worth of medicines 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:31.600 and supplies. He said, about two years ago, when I 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:37.040 was treating my twentieth million child, I finally realized that 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.600 God had answered my prayers. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.400 But it wasn't like I thought. 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.480 I always prayed for God to send some wealthy person. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.840 Now realize I am that wealthy person. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.320 He was saying. The promise is in me. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.600 Friends, you don't need anyone else to give birth to 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.400 what God is placed in your heart. Some of you 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.400 are waiting for the right person. God is saying you 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.840 are the right person. My annoying is on your life, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.440 My favors on your life. You equipped and empowered. You 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.720 can do something great now. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:11.400 Don't do like. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.920 Sarah and say, Okay, God, let me go find somebody younger, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.320 somebody smarter, more educated, more talented. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:19.960 No, you've got what it takes. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:25.600 Don't miss your destiny waiting for somebody else. When my 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.240 father went to be with the Lord, in the back 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.880 of my mind, I thought God would send us somebody 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:36.400 with great ability and a dynamic personality and a booming voice, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.560 and all these degrees behind his names. I was looking 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.840 around the whole time. I was hearing that still small voice. Joel, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.000 this is your time, this is your moment. The promise 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.960 is in you, I said God. I don't have the 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.000 booming voice, don't have the dynamic personality. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:54.480 I don't have all the degrees. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.640 God said Joel, I formed you before the foundation of 0:16:58.680 --> 0:16:59.160 the world. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.680 Now I put it in you everything that you need. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.560 I wouldn't ask you to do it if you didn't 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.119 already have what it takes. Now I stepped up, like 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:14.159 doctor Price. I discovered I was the answer to my prayer. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.320 Some of you are praying for somebody else, for another 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.080 person to come along and bring all your dreams to pass. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.040 God is saying you're the answer to your prayer. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.600 You're equipped anointed, You can do something great. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.640 The good news is just like with Sarah. Just because we. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.440 Don't believe it's going to come to pass, God doesn't 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.240 change his mind. You are still going to give birth 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.840 to everything that God's placed in your heart. What God 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.720 has spoken over you is still going to come to pass. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.520 You need to get your fire back, get your dreams back. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.920 You may have given up on it, but it doesn't 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.200 mean God gave up. Sarah waited twenty years. You can 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.600 still do something great. I love what Caleb did. He 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.640 and Joshua were the ones that went in and told Moses, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.320 we are well able to take the Promised Land. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:07.639 Let us go in at once. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.920 The other people were very negative, and they talked Moses 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.119 and the Israelites out of going into the Promised Land. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.520 Forty years later, now Caleb is eighty five years old. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.080 You'd think that he had been in a rocking chair 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.200 taking it easy. No, Caleb is still fired up about 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.160 not making it into the Promised Land. He knows the 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.840 promise is still in him. He went right back to 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.800 that same place forty years later where the others would 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.320 not go in, and he said, God, give me this mountain. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.879 What's interesting is that mountain had five giants living on 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.600 it been a lot easier to ask for a mountain 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.720 with less opposition, maybe one or two giants. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.280 No, Caleb's attitude was, God. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.920 This is what you promised me, and I'm not going 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.240 to settle for mediocrity when I know you put greatness 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.399 in me. And yes, i'm older, Yes it's been a 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.240 long time. I've made mistakes, I've gone through disappointments. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.480 But God, I. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.880 Still believe the promise is in me. I still believe 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.400 I can become everything you created me to be. At 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.400 eighty five, he went in, conquered the enemies, took the mountain, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.600 saw the dream come to pass. Some of you think 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.600 that you've made too many mistakes. It's been too long, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.560 you're too old. No, God is saying you can still 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.800 make it into your promised land. You can still do 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.240 something great. You're not too old. It's not too late, 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.960 you haven't made too many mistakes. The great news about 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.640 God is even when we miss opportunities didn't work out 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.760 the first time for Caleb, but God is so good 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.920 he will always give you another chance. God will bring 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.280 that opportunity across your path another time. Now, my encouragement 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.920 is get ready, be prepared, be comfident. Because the dream 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.600 didn't work out the first time doesn't mean that dream 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:04.160 has died. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.560 What God has spoken over you is still alive and well. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.439 The scripture tells us to fan the flame, stir up 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.720 the gifts. The promise is in you now, you say, Joel, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.320 you don't know the mistakes I've made. 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:20.199 You don't know the life I've lived. 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.919 No, nothing that you've done is too much for the 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:28.040 mercy of God. The scripture says, God's calling on our 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.119 life is irrevocable. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.720 That means God will never take it back. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:38.040 Your destiny is not canceled because of a mistake, because 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.840 of a failure. Get back up and go again. Think 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.600 about Jonah. God told him to go left. He did 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:45.960 just the. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.000 Opposite, He went right. God didn't say, too bad, Jonah, 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.800 I'm done with you. You had your chance. 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.040 No, God never gives up on us. Jonah got in trouble. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.640 He was on the boat in a storm. They threw 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.639 him overboard. It was his fault. He brought the trouble 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.119 on himself. Surely God would say, See, Jonah, you should 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:06.760 have listened to me. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.760 I told you. Now, look at you. You're done, You're finished. 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.520 No, God knew the promise was still in him. God 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.199 had that big fish to swallow him out, spit him 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.600 out on dry ground. Three days later, God said, come on, Jonah, 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.840 let's get busy. I've still got something great for you 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.600 to do. Some of you have made mistakes. He feel 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.600 washed up, like you're supposed to be on the sidelines 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.399 of life. But God is saying, the promise is still 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.320 in you. If you'll shake off the guilt, shake off 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:41.560 the condemnation, God will still get you to where he 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.080 wants you to be. He'll bring another opportunity across your path. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.679 You can still become all God's created you to be. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.720 My brother Paul recently returned from doing medical missions in Africa. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:56.879 One of the Safari guides that we know, a man 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:01.080 named Henry, told how when a gazelle or a wild 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:05.159 debeast is pregnant and about to give birth, a lion 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:07.680 will closely stalk that animal. 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:09.280 Day after day. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.280 The lion will follow the pregnant mother, waiting for her 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:16.840 to go into labor. The lion knows when she goes 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:17.840 into labor. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.000 She's an easy target. She can't defend herself. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.720 So the lion will actually wait for the mother to 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.880 go into labor and then not only attack and kill her, 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:28.280 but the baby as well. 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:30.600 It's the same principle in life. 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.520 You will face your greatest attacks when you're about to 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.400 give birth to the dreams God places in your heart. 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:44.080 The enemy waits till you're close to the promotion, till 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.359 you're close to the breakthrough, just when you're about to 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.960 step into a new level. Don't be surprised if you 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:55.240 face opposition. You go through a disappointment, a friend you 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:56.840 are counting on is not there. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:58.560 It's taken longer than you thought. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.960 That simply means you're about to give birth to what 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:04.879 God has placed in your heart. The good news is 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.159 the forces that are for you are greater than the 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.440 forces that are against you. Your destiny cannot be stopped 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:17.040 by a bad break, by disappointments, by opposition by people. 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.879 No God has the final say. 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.359 When you're in agreement with God, he says, no weapon 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.080 formed against you will ever prosper. 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:28.119 Now I know some of you tonight. You're up against 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:32.240 big opposition, big challenges. That simply tells me you're. 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.840 About to give birth to what God's placed in your heart. 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:39.080 You're about to see a dream come to pass. Now's 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:41.800 not the time to get discouraged. Now's the time to 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.240 dig your heels in and say, you know what, I 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:45.600 am in it to win it. 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:47.320 I know the promise is in me. 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.479 I'm not gonna let this disappointment, this setback, This person 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:56.600 still my destiny. I'm gonna give birth to everything that 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.960 God placed in my heart. That was the attitude of 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.040 a young man named Troy. I met his mother after 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:06.760 the service not long ago. She's a single parent mom. 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.879 This family had been through a lot of struggles. She 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:11.960 had some kind of sickness to where she had to 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:16.159 have brain surgery. They lost everything several years ago in 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:20.119 a huge flood. It's been one struggle after another. But 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:23.560 she told how her son, Troy, has always had a 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:26.240 big dream for his life. When he was in the 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:29.359 third grade, he wrote in a school paper that he 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:31.919 was going to get a scholarship to go to college. 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.439 As a little boy, the promise was in him to 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:39.639 go further, to do something great. Troy's goal is to 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:43.760 go to Georgetown University, not only get a four year degree, 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:48.120 but to get his master's and his doctorate in foreign relations. 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:52.840 His dream is to become the Secretary of State. For 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.280 a single parent mother in the natural, that kind of 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.160 education is almost impossible. I mean, she's just doing her 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:03.359 best to provide a living each day. Troy could have thought, well, 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:05.639 too bad for me. I got a big dream, but 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:08.440 I don't have the money, I don't have the connections. 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.399 No, Troy's attitude was the promise is in me. What 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:16.520 God has spoken over my life will come to pass. 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:19.720 He didn't sit back and expect God to do it 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:25.120 all for him. He excelled in school. He took college courses. 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:26.000 In the tenth grade. 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.840 This year, he graduated number two in his high school class. 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:32.679 Recently, Troy received. 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:36.760 Not one scholarship, not two, not five, not seven, not eight. 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:41.160 He was awarded nine scholarships worth over one point three 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:47.840 million dollars. He has his four year degree, plus his 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:53.800 master's and his doctorate studies totally paid for at Georgetown University. 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:56.280 Troy and his mom are with us here tonight. Tell 0:25:56.320 --> 0:26:01.960 him that you're proud of him. His mother, Connie, handed 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:03.159 me the newspaper article. 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:04.000 It says he. 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:08.880 Will receive one of the finest educations available. Friends, what 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.800 God has promised you he will bring the past. 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:14.640 You may not see away, but God has a way. 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.880 If you'll be the best that you can be right 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.560 where you are, God will get you to where he 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:24.280 wants you to be. In the Scripture, God put a 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.640 promise in Jeremiah that he would be a great prophet 0:26:28.000 --> 0:26:31.880 and speak to the nations. Jeremiah was young and afraid, 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:34.720 and he didn't think he could do it. People and 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:38.800 obstacles came against him. He got so discouraged he was 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:42.920 about to give up. In Jeremiah chapter twenty, he began 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:46.040 to tell God how bad it was. He listed one 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:49.880 complaint after another. God, these people are mocking me when 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.560 I speak, They make fun of me. I'm being ridiculed, 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:56.639 I'm tired, I'm lonely, I'm intimidating, on and on. Just 0:26:56.760 --> 0:26:59.400 when you thought he was going to quit, he said 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:03.399 in verse nine, God, I feel like giving up. But 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:08.000 your word in my heart is like fire. Shut up 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:10.800 in my bones. He was saying, God, I don't see 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:13.720 how it can happen. All the odds are against me, 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:17.679 but this promise you put in me will. 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:19.480 Not go away. It's like fire. 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:21.639 It's like a burning I can't get away from it. 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:24.680 You too, may be at a place where you could 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:27.760 easily be discouraged and give up on what God is 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:28.720 placed in your heart. 0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:31.120 But the good news is, like. 0:27:31.200 --> 0:27:35.360 Jeremiah, there is fire shut up in your bones. There 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:38.159 is a promise that God has spoken over you that 0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:42.040 will not die. You can try to ignore it. Your 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:44.280 mind will convince you that it's never going to happen. 0:27:44.560 --> 0:27:49.200 But deep down you'll feel a burning, a restlessness, a fire. 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:53.199 That's the promise God put in you. God loves you 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.760 too much to stay average. God is going to push 0:27:56.800 --> 0:28:00.159 you into greatness. You're going to accomplish more than you 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:03.199 thought possible. You're going to go further than you dreamed of. 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:07.240 You're going to see the exceeding greatness of God's power. 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:11.439 What He's spoken over your life will come to pass. Friends, 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:14.000 you don't need anyone else to give birth to what 0:28:14.119 --> 0:28:16.600 God is placed in your heart. Some of you are 0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:19.320 still looking for the other person. You've got to realize 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:22.960 you are the right person. You were equipped, you are annointed. 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.800 You've got what it takes. Now stir up what's on 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:30.200 the inside, and yes, it's good to celebrate others. For 0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:33.159 God is saying it's time for you to be celebrated. 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:35.520 It's time for you to rise to a new level. 0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:39.360 It's time for you to do something great. If you'll 0:28:39.400 --> 0:28:42.600 get up every morning knowing that the promise is in you, 0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:46.120 then that fire shut up in your bones is going 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:47.719 to cause you to rise higher. 0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:49.600 I believe one hundred years from. 0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:52.600 Now, people are going to look back at you and say, Wow, 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:56.160 they were a history maker, they were a world changer. 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:59.480 You're going to become everything God's created you to be, 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:03.000 and you're going to have everything God intended for you 0:29:03.080 --> 0:29:05.400 to have. I believe it and declare it over to 0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:07.480 each one of you. 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