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I promise you'll we'll make 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.480 you feel right at home. I like to start with 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.560 something funny. And one day Adam said to God, why 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.040 did you make Eve so beautiful? God said, so you 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.280 would love her. He said, well, why did you give 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.480 her such long flowing hair? God said it again, so 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.800 you would love her. Said well, God, why'd you give 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.280 her such a great figure? God said the same thing, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.919 so you would love her. Adam said, all right, God, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.800 you made her so beautiful, so attractive. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.400 Why did you make her so dumb? God said, that's easy, Adam, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.880 so she would love you. And all the ladies said, amen, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.440 say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:28.800 I am what it says. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:29.240 I am. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.960 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.640 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.519 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.880 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.280 the same. In Jesus' name. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:45.320 God bless you. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.040 I want to talk to you today about you are 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:49.960 fully loaded. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.480 When God created. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.520 You, he put in you everything you need to fulfill 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:56.880 your destiny. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.639 God is a strategic god. He's not random. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.640 He didn't just create you and say, let's see what 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:04.160 they can do. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.160 Let's see what happens. God is precise. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.680 He's intentional down to the smallest detail. When he laid 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.919 out the plan for your life, he carefully studied it. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.000 He thought about what you would need, what it would 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.120 take to get you there. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.000 Then he matched you with your world. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.440 He gave you the talent you need, the creativity, the 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.360 strength you're, the right size you have, the right looks, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.800 the right personality, the right family. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.000 You didn't get short changed. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.520 You are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:40.320 that's been. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.000 Designed for you. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.800 Now quit wishing you were something different. If I had 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.400 a better personality, then I could do something great. If 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.120 I came from a different family, if I wasn't so small, Joel, have. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.600 A new perspective. If you needed to be taller, God 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:57.760 would have made you taller. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.760 If you needed a different person, he would have given 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.560 you one. If you needed to be another nationality, you 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.800 would be another nationality. God doesn't make mistakes. You're not faulty. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.880 You have been fearfully and wonderfully made. When God created 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.559 the universe, when he flung stars into space, he said 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:24.600 that was good. When he created mountains, ocean sunsets, he 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:30.480 said that was good. When he made animals, lions, eagles, butterflies, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.280 he said that was good. But when God created you, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:39.960 when he saw how magnificent you are, how strong, how attractive, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.760 how talented, God looked at you and said that was 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:44.880 very good. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:46.680 He didn't say. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.640 The solar system was very good. He didn't say the 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.559 rocky mountains were very good. The only time he used 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.000 very good is when he created you. In Ephesians, he 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.640 calls you a masterpiece. When the creator of the universe 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.159 says you are very good, that means you are. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:07.880 Bad to the bone. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:13.680 Now, don't go around feeling shortchanged, like somehow you're lacking. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.080 You didn't get enough. You can't do what they can do. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.240 If you didn't get what somebody else has, that means 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.359 you don't need it. Quit comparing yourself and run your race. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.760 Be who God created you to be. You are an original. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.240 You have something to offer the world that nobody else has. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:41.599 Let your gift shine, show your talent, your personality, your style. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.480 We don't need an imitation, We don't need a copy. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.279 We need the original you. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.000 But when we want what somebody else has, we wish 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:57.120 we had their looks, their talent, their personality. The truth is, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.320 if you had it, it wouldn't be a blessing. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.120 It would be a burden. It wasn't designed for you. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.920 The reason it works for them is because it fits them. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.720 They're walking in their anointing. You are not anointed to 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.520 be somebody else. As long as you're trying to be like. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.520 Them, you'll be frustrated. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.479 The anointing on your life is to be who God 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.320 called you to be. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:26.880 Be confident in what you have. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.919 You have the right looks, the right talent, the right personality. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.000 It may not be what somebody else has, but you're 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.159 not running their race. When my father went to be 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.760 with the Lord, he had pastored Lakewood for forty years. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.520 I had been behind the scenes doing the television production, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.640 and when he died, I'd only ministered one time. But 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.120 I knew I was supposed to step up and pastor 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.680 the church. But I thought I needed to be like 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.680 my dad. After all, people had come to hear him 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.520 for you years, and I knew that's what they were expecting. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.760 In the first few months, I tried to preach like 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.800 my dad and lead like my dad, but it was 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:09.479 a struggle. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.600 Now I had good intentions. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.560 I wanted to honor my father, but there's no grace 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.880 on your life to be somebody else. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.400 One day I read a scripture. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.880 It says an acts David fulfilled his purpose for his generation. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.120 I heard something down in here say, Joel, your father 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:31.720 fulfilled his purpose. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.920 Now quit trying to be like him and go out 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.440 and fulfill your purpose. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.400 It was like a stronghold was broken in my mind. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.000 I realized I'm free to be me. I quit trying 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.880 to imitate my father, and I stepped into my own annoying. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.080 That's when the ministry began to grow. See, I've learned 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.800 it's easy to be me. I don't have to pretend. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.480 I don't have to perform takes all the pre yure all. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.760 I can relax and just be myself. When you're comfortable 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.680 with who you are, when you're not trying to impress people, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.040 you're not trying to be something that you're not. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.120 Then your own uniqueness will come out. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.880 You'll be more creative, your talent will come out in 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.440 greater ways. The right people will show up. Why Because 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.520 you've stepped into the anointing on your life. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.320 Be you. You are powerful when you're you. Here's the key. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.680 Nobody can beat you at being you. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.959 You can be a better you than anybody in the world. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.719 You have an advantage. You've been anointed to be you. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.240 When I minister, I'm more conversational. I don't get real 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:51.000 loud or real excited. But growing up, I used to 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.920 think to be an effective minister you had to be 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:58.600 loud and force full and dynamic. And I have minister 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.840 friends that are that way, and they are very powerful. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.280 That's who they are. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.600 But I've learned when you're who you are, you can 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.120 be quiet and be powerful. You can be small and 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.040 be powerful. You can be behind the scenes and be powerful. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:20.880 The whole key is to be you, because when you're you, you. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.359 Activate your anointing. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.760 There's a favor, a blessing, a grace that is unique 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.160 to your life. But too often, when we see someone 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:35.120 that's more talented, more successful, more blessed, there's a tendency 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.840 to be envious and think, why can't I do that? 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:40.439 I want what they have. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.240 If we're not careful, before long we'll be competing with them, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.520 trying to outperform them, outdress them outdrive them. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:50.679 Outwork them. 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:55.000 The problem is you're competing with someone that's not in 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:00.600 your race. Your race is specifically for you. You are 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.000 not in competition with your friends, your neighbors, your co workers, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:05.840 your siblings. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.160 The only competition. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.560 You have is with yourself to be the best that 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.440 you can be. I realize I can't preach like Bishop Jakes, 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.920 I can't sing like Steve Crawford. I can't do surgery 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:25.000 like my brother Paul. But I can encourage someone. I 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.920 can inspire a few people. I can't smile. I'm good 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:34.000 at that. Don't get distracted trying to keep up with 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.960 someone you were never supposed to keep up with. When 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.560 you understand, you are fully loaded for the race that's 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.559 been designed for you. Instead of competing with people, you'll 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:50.240 celebrate them. The right attitude is they may have something 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.120 that I don't, but that's okay. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.760 I'm not running their race. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.640 I'm equipped from my destiny. This is why King Saul 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.200 lost the throne when he saw David rising higher than him, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:08.520 gaining more influence. Instead of celebrating David, he became jealous. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:14.120 People started seeing Saul has defeated thousands. He was happy, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.880 people are celebrating me. I've done something great. But then 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.839 the song continued and David has defeated. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:22.600 Tens of thousands. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.400 Saul couldn't handle anybody being in front of him. He 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.439 didn't realize they weren't in the same race. He wasn't 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.960 competing with David. If he would have been happy for him. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.480 He wouldn't have missed his destiny. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.640 When we start competing with people, we get distracted, We 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.960 lose focus. Before long, we're wasting time on things that 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.480 are not moving us toward our purpose. I heard a 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:54.360 quote successful people are so focused on their own goals 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.720 they don't have time to look around to see. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:58.959 What everybody else is doing. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:05.079 Run your race, and when somebody passes you by, don't 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.120 be intimidated. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.160 Be inspired. If God did it for them, he can 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:11.080 do it for you. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.400 But if you can't celebrate people that are further along 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.760 than you, then you'll never get. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.920 To where they are. You have to pass the. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.760 Test of being happy for people that have passed you up, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.120 because there will be the tendency to be jealous, start 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.600 finding being critical. Well, they don't deserve it. They're not 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.560 that talented anyway. Let me tell you some bad things 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.360 I heard about them. Don't fall into that trap. God's 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.480 showing them favor doesn't mean he's not going to. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.920 Show you favor. Be happy for them. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.400 And when you see someone that's blessed, they're rising higher, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.840 it's easy to think, well, they've just had a lot 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.760 of good breaks. What you may not realize is the 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:01.240 favor on their life didn't come without pain. Emotion didn't 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.679 come without struggles, without them fighting off discouragement, without them 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.600 pressing forward when they felt like giving up. You don't 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.839 know what it took for them to get where they are. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.520 Sometimes we come in at the end of the movie, we. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.400 See everything working out. They're happy, blessed, successful. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.360 What we didn't see was the middle, the tears, the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.960 lonely nights, the struggles. Be big enough to celebrate what 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.280 God's doing in their life. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:32.839 Don't be a saul. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:38.480 Don't miss your destiny because your sour that somebody passed 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.120 you up. Their success is not stopping what God wants 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.240 to do in your life. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.400 God didn't use up all of his favor on them. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:48.480 It's a test. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.079 Are you going to compete with them, spend all your 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.760 energy trying to keep up, or are you going to celebrate. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.040 What God has done. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.959 You can tell who your true friends are, not by who. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.360 Comes when you fall. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.559 When you make a mistake, people will feel sorry. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.439 They'll show up to help you. Your truth friends are 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.240 the ones that show up when you succeed. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.960 They celebrate when you're promoted, they're happy when God blesses you. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.880 They're high five in you when you move into that 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:19.520 new house. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.640 You've heard the saying it's lonely at the top. It's 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:28.680 because not everybody can handle your success, and too often 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.480 people get envious, jealous, critical. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.240 Let's pass this test. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.160 When somebody passes you by, give them a high five. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.800 And keep running your race. Don't look to the left 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.960 nor to the right. Keep being who God's made you 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:43.240 to be. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.520 One time I was out running through my neighborhood and 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.440 I saw this man in front of me about a 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.840 quarter of a mile and he. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.680 Was running two and I thought, I'm going to catch him. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.480 I had about a mile to go before I needed 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.800 to turn off and go down my path, and I 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.480 picked up the pace, started gaining on him, gaining on him, 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.720 and I was feeling better. Look what I'm doing, getting 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.160 closer and closer, and I finally passed him up. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.720 I beat him. He didn't know we were racing, but 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:11.760 I felt good about it. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.480 About that time, I realized I was so focused on 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.920 catching him I missed my turn. I had to turn 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.800 around and go back about six blocks to where I 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.800 was supposed to turn. That's what happens when we start 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.000 competing with people. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.480 It's a distraction. We're running in a race. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.120 We're not supposed to be in competing with people that 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.040 many times don't even know it. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:40.960 If that man knew we. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.400 Were racing, I'd probably still be trying to catch him. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.320 He would have sped up. Don't get distracted. Run your race. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.000 In the scripture, John the Baptist was baptizing people and gaining. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:53.600 A lot of attention. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.680 One point, the Jewish leaders came and wondered if he 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.880 was the Christ. Without missing a beat, John said, I 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:06.680 am not the Messiah. It's important to know not only 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.040 who you are, but to know who you're not. If 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.000 you don't know this, you can spend your life trying 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.600 to be something that you're not. John had no problem 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.200 saying I am not the Messiah. He was saying, I 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.400 don't have to be the Messiah to feel good about myself. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.240 I'm content with who God made me to be. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.480 If you're trying to be something you're not, you'll be frustrated. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.160 There's no grace for it. It'll be a constant struggle, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.080 always like it's uphill. If Saul would have understood this, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.560 he could have kept the throne. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:46.080 If he would have accepted I am not David. He's 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.240 defeated tens of thousands, He's done great things. I've defeated 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.400 a thousand. God, you bless me. It would have been 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:54.320 a different story. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.920 Most of the time we're happy until we start comparing 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.240 and Saul heard the numbers David tens of thousands. I 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.440 can imagine him asking someone how many did they say, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.959 David has defeated. When they answered tens of thousands, Saw's 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.440 whole perspective changed. He was no longer content with his success. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.280 Now he was envious, jealous. He basically spent the rest 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.600 of his life trying to be David. All he had 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.760 to do is realize I am not David. God has 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.240 blessed him in a different way. We have to understand 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.320 the sovereignty of God may not seem fair to us, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.160 doesn't always make sense, but God's ways. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:39.880 Are not our ways. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.119 And the scripture talks about how God has given to 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:49.880 every person different gifts, different talents. According to our own ability. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.560 Everyone doesn't get the same. But what He gave you 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.080 is what you need to fulfill your destiny. Whether you're 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.120 a Saul and you can defeat a thous or you're 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.280 a David and you can defeat ten thousand, the right 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.399 attitude is I'm going to take what God's given me 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.040 and make the most of it. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.840 Don't compete, don't compare, just run your race. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.679 In the parable, Jesus told of the talents the owner 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.840 gave one man one talent, another man two talents, and 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.840 another man five talents. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:25.960 It seems like if God. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.320 Was fair, he would have given them all the same number. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.920 But God is sovereign. He may give you five talents 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.960 and give me two talents. He's God. I can complain 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.000 about the two, try to compete with you and outperform you, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.760 but that doesn't change the fact that you still have 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.640 five and I still have two. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.399 A better approach. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.360 Is to say, God, I recognize you are sovereign, and 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.720 before you gave me these two talents, I didn't have any. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.520 So instead of complaining about the too and competing with 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.399 the five, I'm going to take these two talents and 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.119 be the best that I can be. It takes a 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:13.560 mature person to recognize what you're not, but knowing what 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.840 you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.040 you are because there will always be pressures to be this, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.399 to be that, to be the other. Everyone will have 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.679 opinions about you, but down in your heart, you know 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.439 who you are. You can't let the outside pressures and 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.280 other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.560 When I first started ministering, I was young, and didn't 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.600 have much experience. I had a lot of people giving 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.840 me opinions. They told me how to lead the church, 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:51.440 how to minister, what I should speak on, and sometimes 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.040 it wasn't what they said, just what they inferred. I 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.879 could feel the pressure to be who they wanted me 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:58.280 to be. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:00.000 And they were good people. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.040 But people didn't breathe life into you. People didn't lay 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.399 out your plan and purpose. People didn't put gifts and 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.439 talents on the inside. And I was always respectful, but 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.359 I was firm a lot of their advice. When I 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.040 heard it, I knew it wasn't what God put. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:18.520 In my heart. 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.760 I had to be bold and say I am not 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.120 that I am, not that I am not. 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:28.240 That this is who I am. You have to be strong. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.320 It's your destiny when you come to the end of life. 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.080 You're not going to answer to people. You're going to 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:35.879 answer to God. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.200 And people may mean well, they may love you. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.760 But if it doesn't bear witness in your spirit, you 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.760 have to be bold and say, like John, that is 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.320 not who I am. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:49.120 And here's the key. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.160 You don't have to have a great gift for God 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.520 to use you in a great way. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.400 You know what took David to the throne. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:01.840 Wasn't his leadership skills, his ability to write music, his personality, 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.760 his size. What promoted David was his gift of slinging 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.359 a rock. He was good with a slingshot. Out in 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.760 the shepherd's fields. He had spent hours practicing as a 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.080 teenager while he was taking care of his father's sheep. 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.240 He could have thought, God, why didn't you give me 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.479 an impressive gift? Why did you just give me one talent. 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.719 I'm an expert with a slingshot. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:27.320 Big deal. 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.480 That's never going to take me any place. But if 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.880 you'll be faithful with the gifts you have, if you'll 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:38.359 develop it, grow, learn, get better, that gift will open 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.879 doors to places you've never dreamed. Don't discount your gift. 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:46.919 It may seem small to you compared to others. It 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:52.320 feels insignificant, But there is nothing ordinary about you. You 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.359 have the fingerprints of God all over you. God made 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.640 you in his own image. He crowned you with favor. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.879 You have royal blood flowing through your veins. Don't believe 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.680 those lies. There's nothing special about you. You're not as 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.120 talented as your brother, you don't have a big personality, 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.359 like your friend. You don't have the design skills like 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:18.440 your coworker. Maybe not, but you do have a slingshot. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:24.119 There's something God has given you. That slingshot may seem ordinary, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.800 but when God breathes on it, you'll defeat a giant 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:32.200 twice your size. You'll be promoted beyond your talent. You'll 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.000 go places where you. 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.040 Didn't have the experience. You weren't next. 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:40.760 In line, but suddenly the door opened, Suddenly the compact 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:45.560 center is yours. Suddenly people are celebrating you. But too 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.720 often we look at others and think about how great 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.240 they are, We put them on a pedestal. But God 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:58.520 has put greatness in you. He's given you gifts, creativity, dreams. 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:02.920 He created you you to leave your mark on this generation. 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.840 You're not supposed to live and die and nobody knew 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:07.480 you were here. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:09.640 There is something. 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:13.600 Significant about you, something that will cause you to stand out. 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.639 We're years from now, people will look back and say 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:19.679 you made the world a better place. 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.040 Stir up those gifts, Stir up that faith. 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.399 Don't get so caught up in celebrating others that you 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.000 don't recognize there's something. 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:30.440 In you to be celebrated. 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:36.200 Jeremiah said, your word, Oh Lord, is like fire shut 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:40.080 up in my bones. There is something shut up in you, 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:50.800 something big that's about to be released. Dreams, books, movies, inventions, businesses, ministries, 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:55.560 potential that you haven't tapped into, gifts and talents that 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.800 you didn't know were there. You haven't seen them yet 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:01.159 because it hasn't been the right time. 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.480 But your season is coming. The good break, the. 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:10.240 Promotion, the opportunity, it's on the way now. Don't be 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:16.879 surprised if there's opposition. That promotion may be disguised as Goliath. 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:20.800 That giant looks like it's there to stop you, but 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:21.760 it's a setup. 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.160 It's going to thrust you to a new level. 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:29.160 You're going to discover what the slingshot was all about. 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:34.200 It was a test. You proved your faithfulness. You did 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:37.359 the right thing when nobody was watching. You kept a 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.640 good attitude when it wasn't fair. You celebrated others when 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:42.879 you could have been jealous. 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.400 Now your time is coming. 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:48.679 What's been shut up in your spirit is about to 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:49.400 be released. 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:50.680 It's going to be. 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:56.040 Bigger, more rewarding, more fulfilling than you ever imagine. It's 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:59.159 not going to come through your neighbor, through your cousin, 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:02.080 through your ball, through your pastor. It's going to come 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:06.200 through you. It's your baby, It's your time to be celebrated. 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:10.000 This is what happened in the scripture with Sarah. She 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:13.880 and her husband Abraham were very old. Sarah had been 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.200 bearing her whole life and not able to have children. 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:22.240 But in Genesis seventeen, God said to Abraham, I will 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:26.640 give Sarah a son. She will be the mother of nations. 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:31.760 Kings of people will come out of her. Every circumstance 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:35.120 said it was impossible. She was out in the desert, 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:38.560 no fertility treatments, no medical. 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:40.320 Procedures, eighty years old. 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:44.720 Yet God said, you have kings in you. You have 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:48.400 nations in you. He was saying, Sarah, what I've put 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:52.240 in you is more than you can imagine. God is 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:55.480 saying the same thing to you. There are kings in you. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.480 There is greatness in you. It's much bigger than what 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:03.880 you think. Don't let circumstances. 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.520 Talk you out of it. You may not see how 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:06.400 it could work out. 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:10.119 God has ways to do it that you've never thought of. 0:26:10.600 --> 0:26:13.600 One touch of God's favor will catapult you to the 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:14.280 next level. 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:19.480 When Sarah heard this. It was so unbelievable. She laughed. 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:22.560 She said, me, have a baby. I don't think so. 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:27.159 She loved the idea, but since she was so old, 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.760 she thought the baby would have to come through somebody else. 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:33.080 So she tried to help God out. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:36.680 She had Abraham sleep with her maid and they had 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:40.439 a son. She was so excited. She said, God, you 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:44.359 did what you said. God said, Sarah, that is not 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:48.600 the promised child. I didn't put the promise in somebody else. 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:50.159 I put the promise in you. 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:56.000 At ninety years old, against all odds, she became pregnant 0:26:56.320 --> 0:26:57.320 and gave birth. 0:26:57.080 --> 0:26:58.680 To a son named Isaac. 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:02.359 What God put in you, he's still going to bring 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:06.720 to pass. You are pregnant with destiny. You are pregnant 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:07.640 with greatness. 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:10.800 It's not going to come through others. You're going to shine, 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:14.640 You're going to excel. You're going to be promoted. You're 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:18.680 going to be celebrated. Friends. You are fully loaded. You're 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:22.000 not at a deficit. You're not lacking. You're full of. 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:26.000 Potential, full of favor. Like Sarah, you may have been 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:28.119 barren for a long time. You don't see how it 0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:31.399 can happen. Get Ready, this is a new day. Things 0:27:31.440 --> 0:27:35.879 are changing in your favor. I believe and declare what's 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:40.359 been shut up in your spirit is being released. Dreams 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:47.879 are being released, potential, promotion, healing, abundance, vindication. 0:27:47.520 --> 0:27:49.720 Breakthroughs, the fullness of. 0:27:49.640 --> 0:27:53.400 Your destiny in Jesus' name, And if you receive it, 0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:54.600 can you say amen? 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:55.400 Today? 0:27:56.640 --> 0:27:59.440 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:00.600 the Lord of your life. 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:02.000 Would you pray with me? 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:08.320 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:13.879 into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior. 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