You Are Blessed And Cannot Be Cursed

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If you 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.880 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:55.320 put God's very best in your life. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:56.880 Will God bless you? 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.760 It's always a joy to come into your homes. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.040 We love you. We know God has. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.080 Great things in store. He rewards the people that seek 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.280 after him. If you're ever in our area, please stop 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.480 by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.040 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.800 But thanks so much for tuning in. Thanks again, for 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.760 coming out today. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.960 and I heard about this husband and wife. They argued 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.200 month after month about who should make the coffee in 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:25.720 the morning. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.760 The husband definitely thought it was the wife's job, and 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.200 she just didn't agree. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.400 And after several heated debates, the wife finally said, I 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.359 can prove to you from the scripture that the man 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.320 is supposed to make the coffee. He said, what are 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.560 you talking about. There's nothing in the Bible about the 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:43.840 man making the coffee. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.840 She said, sure, there is. She opened her Bible and pointed. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:53.440 To the Book of he Brews. All right, say it 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.480 like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.040 what it says. I am. I have what it says 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.799 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.080 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.519 have boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.680 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.280 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.480 how you are blessed and cannot be cursed. In life, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.960 we all have negative things that happen to us. We 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.760 go through situations that are unfair. If we're not careful. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.520 They can cloud our future and keep us from pressing forward. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.720 And I know people that weren't raised in a healthy environment. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.360 They had parents that had issues, and now it's making 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.960 it much more difficult on them. A young man recently 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.440 told how his father was an alcoholic. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.880 He was never around when he was growing up. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.000 His mom had plenty of issues of her own, and 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.800 he ended up being passed from foster home to foster home, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.760 and now he's struggling trying to overcome his own challenges. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.640 He said, Joel, my parents put me at such a disadvantage. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.400 It's almost like they cursed my future. But here's what 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.760 I've learned. Before anyone could put a curse on you, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.000 God put a blessing on you. The good news is 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:19.440 the blessing always overrides the curse. When you understand who 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.240 you are and what God has already done, then no 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.040 matter what someone else did, no matter how unfair it was, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.320 no matter how you were raised, you won't get better. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.839 You won't live with a chip on your shoulder, you 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.720 won't try to get even. You realize that cannot stop 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.440 you from fulfilling your God given destiny. You may have 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.040 had parents that put you at a disadvantage. But understand, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.920 you didn't come from your mother. Of course, we love 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.440 our mothers, but you didn't come from your mother. You 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.839 came through your mother. You came from Almighty God. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.680 He gave your life, he gave your breath. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.520 God used our mother to get us here. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.080 But we came from God. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:09.919 That means your destiny, your assignment, your purpose cannot be 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.080 ruined by who you came through. You came from the 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.920 most high God, He has the ultimate saying. I had 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.159 a young lady tell how she was one of these 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.840 cocaine babies. Her mother had all kinds of addictions, and 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.960 when she was born, she was addicted as well as 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.200 a baby. This mom left her at an early age, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.800 and now she's struggling with other addictions, with her sense 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.240 of value, her sense of identity. I told her what 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.600 I'm telling you. You came through your mother, love her, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.440 respect her, pray for her. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.279 But you didn't come from her. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.440 You came from Almighty God, and he has already planned 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.800 out a great life for you. You may have gotten 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.400 off to a rough start, but it's not how you 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.560 start that matters, it's how you finish. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:58.960 Now, I heard. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:04.400 Somebody say don't let your heredity stop your destiny. Don't 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.320 let how somebody treated you or what they did or 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.159 didn't give you keep you from pressing forward and becoming 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.640 all God's created you to be the people that raise you. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.599 They may have had addictions, but that doesn't have to 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:18.360 be your future. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.440 You can be the one to break that negative cycle. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.560 Your parents, they may have had anger issues, never amounted 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.520 to much, but you don't have to keep letting that 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.560 curse be passed from generation to generation. You can be 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.800 the one to say no more, this is a new day. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.479 I may have had an unfair past, but I'm not 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.520 gonna have an unfair future. I know God put a 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.640 blessing on me before anybody could put a curse, and 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:51.200 I'm not gonna let my heredity stop my destiny. Well, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.039 you said, Joel, I was just raising such a dysfunctional family. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.040 You should see how messed up we are. So let 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.839 me tell you a secret. Every family has a little dysfunction. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.560 There is no such thing as the perfect family. I 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.440 used to think we were. Then my brother Paul came along. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:15.080 What am I saying? Quit making excuses. I know people 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.440 that are fifty years old still talking about what mama 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.920 didn't give them, how daddy wasn't around. How unfairly they 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.800 were treated. And I'm not making light of that. It 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.320 may have been unfair. All I'm saying is, don't let 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.880 that ruin the rest of your life. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.360 God knew who your parents would be. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.760 Your mom and dad didn't just get together and decide 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.720 to have a baby. No, before you were even a 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.680 thought in their mind. God had already planned out your life. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.080 Talks about in Psalm one thirty nine how God knew 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.920 us even when we were an unformed substance. He looked 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.040 at that substance and said, this is my purpose for 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.160 this person. This is when they will live, This is 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.080 who their parents were will be, This is their assignment. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.320 He then breathed his life into you and sent you 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:10.600 through your mother, through your father. They may have had issues, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.600 but that doesn't have to stop you. The creator of 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.560 the universe breathed his purpose into you. You are a 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.000 person of destiny. You've got to have this down in 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.280 your spirit. You are not an accident. You have been 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.120 hand picked by Almighty God to be here at this 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.600 time in history. Sometimes we hear parents say we weren't 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.079 expecting this child. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.480 They were a surprise. They were an accident. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.640 No, they may have been a surprise to you, but 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.640 they weren't a surprise to Almighty God. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.880 No child can be born without God. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.400 Breathing his life into them. You may think, well, Joel, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.960 I was unwanted. I was an unplanned pregnancy. My mother 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.240 and father weren't married. No, you wouldn't be here if 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.000 God didn't give life to your seed. In God's eyes, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.920 there's no such thing as being illegitimate. You didn't just 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.080 show up unwanted, unannounced. God had already planned out your 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.160 days long before you ever entered into this world. That's 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.440 what God said to Jeremiah. Before you were born. I 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.080 knew you, and I already called you to be a 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:24.079 prophet to the nations. Notice he had an assignment from 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.320 Almighty God before he was ever even born. That means 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.840 my past didn't start with my parents. It started with 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.199 my God. You may not have had the blessing of 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.920 having a father in the home when you're grown up, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.800 or maybe you didn't have a mother that really loved 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.640 you and spoke faith into you, but that doesn't have 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.920 to stop you from fulfilling your purpose. A parent may 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.200 not have given you their blessing. The good news is 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.120 God gave you his blessing. The very fact that we 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.160 woke up with air to breathe today, that should be 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.640 a reminder that we are called, we are chosen, we 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.079 are anointed, we are set apart, we are people of destiny. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.120 You've got to get rid of every thought that's telling 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.120 you that you're a mistake. You didn't really have a 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.200 father around, you didn't have a good mother. Now listen, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.560 the scripture says God will be a father to the fatherless. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.000 You don't have to have everybody else's approval. You have 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.920 God's approval. That's all that really matters. I think about 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.560 our friend Israel Houghton, one of our worship leaders, when 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.880 his mom was pregnant with him. She was a teenager 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.880 living in Iowa. She was white, the father was black. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.479 They weren't married. This was back in the nineteen seventies. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.760 Her parents said, you're not going to keep this child. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.080 It's a mistake. You're going to ruin your life and 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.600 the baby's life. They gave her an ultimatum, either abort 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:57.280 this baby, or you're not welcome in our home anymore. Sadly, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.920 sometimes when our children need us, the mother. 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.160 We helped him the least. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.040 That young lady made a decision to keep the child. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.680 She moved to California all by herself. At seventeen years 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.520 of age. She was on the street corner and somebody 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.440 talked to her about finding peace with God. That day, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.840 right then and there, she gave her life to Christ. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.160 That person gave her a Bible. When she got home, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.600 she opened it. The first word she saw was Israel. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.480 She thought, that's what I'm gonna name my baby. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:29.160 Today. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.440 We all know that Israel was not a mistake. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:33.880 He was not a mac for them. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.160 He's one of the great worship leaders, one of the 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.800 great psalmists of our time. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.800 He's written songs that are sung. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.200 All over the world, won Grammy Awards, all kinds of 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.200 other accolades. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.320 But Israel could have sat around with a. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.840 Chip on his shoulder and thought, why didn't I have 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:55.960 a normal upbringing? 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.280 Why wasn't my father around? 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.800 Why did these kids make fun of me at school 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.880 because I'm half white and half black. No, deep down, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.480 Israel new I'm a person of destiny. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.600 I have a purpose to fulfill. Yes, I came. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.800 Through my mother and I love her, But I came 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.000 from Almighty God. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.080 I know he has an assignment for me. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.079 He didn't let his heredity stop his destiny. You may 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.800 have a thousand reasons why you could live with a 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.719 chip on your shoulder and stay defeated and depressed. No, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.400 you may have a reason, but you don't have a right. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.920 Almighty God breathed his life into you. He's given you 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.679 an assignment. You are not here to just take up space. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.520 You're not supposed to just drag through the day with 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.720 no enthusiasm. You're supposed to be living an abundant life, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.960 pursuing your God given dreams, making a difference in our world. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.960 You got to dig your heels in and say I 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.840 am not settling where I am. It may have been unfair, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.160 it may not have been right, but I know who 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.960 I am. I am a person of destiny. I'm a 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.880 person of purpose, and I realized before anyone could put 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.760 a curse on me, God put his blessing on me. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.880 So I am going to rise up and become everything 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.240 He's created me to be. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:19.160 Here's my point. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.320 You've got to get rid of any excuses that are 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.440 holding you back. Well, George, I just come from the 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.960 wrong family. No God knew who your parents would be. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.760 He's not up in the heaven scratching his head saying, ah, man, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.840 I wanted Israel to do something great. How did he 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.520 ever get hooked up with those two? No, God knew 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.480 exactly what he was doing. There is nothing that has 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.520 happened to you that can keep you from your God 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.679 given destiny. If you will get rid of the excuses, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.120 rise up in faith with a holy determination pressing forward, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.840 then you will see God's plan for your life begin 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.760 to unfold. God will open up doors that no man 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.640 can shut. He will take what was meant for your. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.040 Harm and use it to your advantage. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.280 Your heredity does not have to stop your destiny. Here's 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.720 what I've learned. The enemy doesn't fight you for where 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.040 you are. He fights you for where you're going. He 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.880 doesn't fight you for the present. He fights you because 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.400 he knows what's in your future. He would have loved 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.160 to talk Israel's mom into aborting him. Why did he 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.480 fight her so hard? He knew where Israel was going. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.400 He knew Israel was going to do something great. When 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.360 I first started ministering ten years ago, it was very difficult. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.880 I was not only dealing with the loss of my father. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.800 But I was learning how to minister, and at one 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.480 point it seemed like everything was coming against me. People 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.320 were talking and I wasn't even sure I was able 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.520 to do this, and I thought, why is everything such 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.800 a struggle? Why are these people against me? I'm not 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.680 bothering anybody. I'm just trying to carry on what my 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:00.240 mom and. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.200 Dad had started. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.360 I realize now the enemy wasn't fighting me for where 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:05.800 I was. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:07.960 He was fighting me for where I was going. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.400 He didn't want us to make it here to the 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.720 former Compact Center so we could. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.000 Celebrate each week. He didn't want me to be a 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.200 voice of hope that would go around the world. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.960 He didn't want me to write the books, send out 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.080 all the podcasts. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.280 He doesn't fight you for where you are. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.040 He fights you because he knows in your future is 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:35.560 favors good breaks, supernatural opportunities, divine connections. He's fighting you 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.200 because he knows you're gonna do damage to his kingdom 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.000 and you're gonna advance God's kingdom. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.120 When times get tough. That should be a reminder. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.440 This is just a sure sign that God has something 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.400 great in story. I know this gentleman that was raised 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:58.080 by a single parent mother. He never knew his biological father. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.360 When he was five or six years old old, his 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:05.080 mother married, and this stepdad was very mean, very condescending. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.200 He was always telling him how he was never going 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.840 to amount to anything, how slow he was, how clumsy 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.160 he was, how he couldn't do anything right. He grew 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:20.680 up incredibly insecure, feeling inferior. When he was in his teens, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.160 his mother remarried. This second stepfather was just the opposite. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.560 He began to speak faith into this young man, tell 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.560 him how talented he was and how he could do anything, 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.200 and how he was this person of destiny. When the 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.800 young man graduated from high school, he was working as 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.960 a janitor in a small town, cleaning an office complex. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.880 The stepfather asked him what he wanted to do with 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.480 his life. He'd been beaten down for so many years. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.760 He couldn't see himself doing anything different. He said, well, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.880 I just want to be a janitor and continue to 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:59.560 clean this office building. The stepfather looked at him and said, listen, Robert, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.520 you can become so much more. You have the seed 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.520 of almighty God. You've got to have a bigger vision 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:07.920 for your life. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.080 He said, I'll make a deal with you. If you'll 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:10.880 go to college. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.840 I'll pay for every book, I'll pay for every course, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.639 I'll pay for every degree that you get. When Robert 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.679 heard that something leaped on the inside, he knew God was. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.680 Speaking to him. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.520 He went to college and got his bachelor's degree, and 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.800 then got his master's degree, and then got a doctorate. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.080 He liked it so much he decided to go to 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:37.040 seminary and got another degree. After four degrees, the stepfather said, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:42.440 I think that's good enough. Today Robert is extremely successful 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.040 fulfilling his God given purpose. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.760 What happened he didn't let his. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:52.639 Heredity stop his destiny. He realized the enemy wasn't fighting 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.320 him for where he was. He was fighting him for 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.200 where he was going. But it all started when somebody 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.919 spoke faith into him, when that stepfather told him what 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.560 he had on the inside. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:06.399 That's what I'm doing today. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.240 I'm calling forth your seeds of greatness. Someone may have 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.919 told you what you can't become, but I'm here to 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.119 tell you what you can become. You are a person 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.160 of destiny. You are equipped, you are talented, you are creative. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:22.720 Don't you dare. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.800 Let what someone has said about you, or how someone 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.520 has raised you to limit your life. It may not 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.840 have been fair, but God is fair. It may have 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.480 clouded your future, but I believe today the clouds are 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.280 beginning to dissipate. The sun is starting to shine forth. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.199 You're going to step into a new dimension in your life. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.840 You know the truth, and the truth is setting you free. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.679 You realize, before anyone could put a curse on you, 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.919 God put a blessing, and his blessing always. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:55.639 Overrides the curse. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.120 When you really understand that you you've been blessed by 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.080 the creator of the universe, then no matter what comes 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.880 against you, it won't affect you. When somebody's talking bad 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.920 about you, trying to pull you down, trying to steal 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.800 your joy, you just shake it off. You know God's 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.480 fighting your battles. You know God is your vindicator. I 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.000 love the time in the scripture when a prophet was 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.800 walking down the road with some of his men, and 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.560 this young man came up and started badgering the prophet, 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.960 criticizing him, trying to make him look bad, and everywhere 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.560 this group went, the young man falling from a distance 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.399 and just kept annoying him, pestering him Finally, one of 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.239 the men said to the prophet, do you want us 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.040 to go and shut this guy up? We are so 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.560 tired of hearing him. The prophet said, no, let him 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.439 keep talking. Maybe God will hear him and bless me 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.359 for it. That's the attitude we should have. Somebody talking 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.120 about you, trying to make you look bad. You don't 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.479 lose your joy, you don't get upset. You know, the 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.840 more they talk, the more God's gonna bless They're trying 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:07.159 to curse your future. They don't realize what God is blessed. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.960 No person can curse. They meant it to harm you, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.159 but God's gonna cause it to backfire. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.879 You're gonna come out better off than you were before. 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.400 One time in the Old Testament, the king of Moab 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.679 sent word to Balim, asking him to come to his 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.080 city and to curse the people of Israel. The Israelites 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.960 were about to come through where the Moabites lived, and 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.600 when the king saw how many there were, he sent 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.439 his men with a large amount of money. And they said, Balim, 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.880 we know what you asked the Lord. He will do 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.879 and the King will pay you all this money if 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.600 you'll just come back with us and curse these people. 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:50.399 He said, we'll stay overnight and let me pray about it. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.879 But understand, I can only say what God tells me 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.600 to say. He prayed about it, and in numbers twenty 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.679 two twelve, God said, Balem, there's no use you going. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.840 What I have blessed, you cannot curse. Notice when God 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.639 puts the blessing on you, it doesn't matter what somebody says. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.600 It doesn't matter what they do, doesn't matter how you 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.280 were raised, doesn't matter how unfair it was. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.280 All that matters is. 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.680 The creator of the universe put his blessing on you, 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:27.239 and everything else is of no effect. They may say it, 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.240 but if you don't let it take root. 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:30.359 It's not gonna stop you. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.919 It may be unfair, may look like they're getting the 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.639 best of you, but if you will stay in faith, 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:41.480 sooner or later you will see the blessing overrode the curse. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.080 It didn't stop you, It promoted you. It was meant 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.600 to slow you down, but instead you accelerated. They went 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.400 back and told the king that Balem wouldn't come. He said, well, 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.640 take some more money and go back and tell him 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:57.919 he's gotta come and curse these people. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.360 They went back, and Balim said, and. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:04.560 Guys, even if you offer me a palace filled with 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:09.359 silver and gold, I am powerless to do anything against 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.840 the will of the Lord, my God. They stayed the 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.120 night and finally talked Balem into going. He got there 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.720 and the king said, Balem, what took you so long? 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.480 I've been waiting for you to curse these people. Balim said, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.000 I'll pray one more time, but I can only say 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:29.280 what the Lord instructs me to say. He prayed the 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.080 next morning. He said to the king, here's what the 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.000 word of the Lord says. These people will succeed and 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:40.280 become a great nation and have descendants too many to count. 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.800 If I could just be one of them. The king said, Balim, 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.359 what are you doing? Would you stop? I'm paying you 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:51.200 to curse them instead your blessing them. Balem said it again, 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.880 I cannot curse what God has already blessed. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.120 Now, I hope you'll get that down in your spirit. 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:01.960 When God breathed his life life into you, he breathed 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:06.600 his blessing. You have the dna of Almighty God. His 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:09.959 royal blood is flowing through your veins. You'll wear in 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:14.120 his crown of favor, just like this king. When somebody 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:17.240 tries to curse you, In other words, when somebody does 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.160 you wrong, you got a bad break, you went through 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:23.880 an unfair situation. It looks like it's clouded your future. 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:27.240 Now you've got to have a new perspective. What God 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:31.560 has blessed, no person can curse. Does it matter if 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:34.640 they speak defeat over you night and day. They may 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.880 try to make you feel small and insecure. They may 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:41.800 try to intimidate you into shrinking back in fear, but 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.120 there's no reason to be afraid, no reason to get 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:49.639 upset or be intimidated. The good news is the creator 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:53.119 of the universe put his blessing on you, and just 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:57.320 like Balem said, they are powerless to stop it. That 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.439 means nothing they say, nothing they do, can take that 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:05.400 blessing away from you. When you really understand this, there's 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:09.679 a real freedom. Somebody's talking bad about you, your attitude 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.840 is no big deal. I know they are powerless to 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:16.159 stop the blessing God put on my life. Well, you 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:19.359 got laid off, got some bad breaks, aren't you worried? No, 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.439 I'm not worried. I know the blessing God put on 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:26.360 me will always override the curse. Well, you got off 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:29.440 to a rough start in life. You're still in the projects. 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:31.600 Doesn't look like you have much of a future. 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.879 Know where I am is not where I'm staying. I 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:38.200 know the blessing on my life will get me to where. 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:42.280 I'm supposed to be. I love the story of Mordecai. 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:43.160 In the scripture. 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:46.879 He was the one that encouraged his cousin Esther to 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:48.760 rise up and save God's people. 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:51.480 But there was another man by the name of Hayman. 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:55.800 He worked directly with the king, and Haman didn't like Mordecai. 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:59.439 He was always trying to push him down and always 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:03.119 trying to make look bad. It was because he was 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:07.920 intimidated by Mordecai. I believe he was jealous and afraid 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:12.280 that Mordecai might outshine him. Now I found in life 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.280 there will always be people that don't want you to 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:16.520 rise any higher. 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:18.120 They think if they can. 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:21.639 Keep you small, keep you down, it'll make them look bigger. 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:25.600 So they'll do everything they can to keep you from succeeding. 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:29.879 It may mean talking behind your back, not inviting you 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:31.400 to an important meeting. 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:33.320 Not giving you the credit you deserve. 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:36.359 It's easy to get frustrated and want to get in 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.800 there and set the record straight. But I've learned if 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.480 you'll just leave it up to God and still on 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:45.640 the high road, God will fight your battles for you. 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:48.160 It may look like they're getting the best of you, 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:52.320 like they're keeping you from being promoted, but don't get discouraged. 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:56.000 Your time is coming. God always has the final say. 0:25:56.359 --> 0:26:00.200 They may keep you down temporarily, but like Balim said, 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:04.000 and they are powerless to curse what God has already blessed. 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:09.199 One night, this king couldn't sleep. He asked an assistant 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.119 to go get him the record books of everything that 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:13.600 had gone on in that city. 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:17.280 It just so happened. He opened to the page. 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:20.280 Where it talked about where Mordecai had done a great 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:22.399 deed and saved the city from harm. 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:25.840 The next morning, the king called Haman in and. 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:28.760 Said, Hayman, what do you suggest I do to honor 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:32.360 a person that is really pleased the king and done 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:35.520 a great deed for our city. Haman was so full 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:38.159 of pride and so stuck on himself he thought the 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:40.800 king was talking about him, so he played it up 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:43.359 really big, went overboard. He said, I think wa to 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:46.560 have a big parade. Put a royal robe on this person, 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:50.320 march him up and down the streets, blowing trumpets, announcing 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:53.520 how great he is. The king said, Hayman, that's a 0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:57.320 great idea. I'm putting you in charge. Now go get 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:02.120 Mordecai and do just what you said. Friends, God knows 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:05.480 how to vindicate you. He can take the very ones 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:08.119 that are trying to curse you and use them to 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:11.399 be the ones that bless you. David said in Psalm 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:14.280 one O nine they will curse me, but God you 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:17.399 will bless me. And some of you have had a 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:20.720 lot of negative things come against you. It's worn you 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:24.679 down to where you're not really expecting God's blessings. That 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:28.600 I believe today a new seed is taken root. You're 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:32.159 not gonna let your heredity stop your destiny. You're not 0:27:32.200 --> 0:27:35.080 gonna allow what someone has said to keep you from 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.880 pressing forward. You're not gonna let a jealous, critical person 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:42.879 steal your joy. You know God is fighting your battles. 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:45.880 You know he put a blessing before anyone could put 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:49.760 a curse. And I realized you could not choose who 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:53.440 your parents were, You couldn't choose how you were raised. 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:57.040 You couldn't choose when you were born. But you can 0:27:57.240 --> 0:28:00.560 choose to walk in the blessing. You can choose to 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:04.080 fulfill your purpose. You can choose to not live life 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:08.560 bitter looking back, but pressing forward in faith. You may 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:12.720 have had some generational curses in your family line, but 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:16.560 when you came to Christ, the scripture says you became 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:17.800 a new creation. 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:20.359 Old things have passed away. 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:25.800 Just like there were generational curses, I believe now there 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:30.600 are generational blessings, and what God has blessed, no person 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:34.480 can curse. Now I'm asking you today to rise up 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:38.000 in faith. Say yes, I may have had some bad breaks. 0:28:38.480 --> 0:28:40.280 Yes it may have been unfair. 0:28:39.920 --> 0:28:44.200 But I'm not worried. I'm not discouraged. I know the blessing. 0:28:43.800 --> 0:28:47.000 God put on my life will always override the curse. 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:49.920 If you do that, I can tell you with confidence. 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:53.400 Favor is in your future. Good breaks is in your future, 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:55.400 Vindication is in your future. 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:57.680 New opportunities are in your future. 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:02.080 Healing, health, wholeness, promotion, victory is in your future. 0:29:02.360 --> 0:29:05.680 Friends, you are blessed and you cannot be cursed. Do 0:29:05.720 --> 0:29:07.040 you receive that blessing today? 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:12.240 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:15.120 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:19.720 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:24.480 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:25.920 you my Lord and savior. 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:29.560 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:32.360 got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:35.400 Keep God first place. 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